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Weekly Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1841), 1849-04-11

Weekly Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1841), 1849-04-11 page 1

WEEKLY 0 0 STATE 0 DM A T VOLUME XXXIX. COLUMBUS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1840. NUMBER 33. FUllUSHKO F.VKKV WKDNK.NDAY MOKNINU, BY TH HALL & REED. Jiricem llw Journal BaiMinif. soul" cast oornerof High trootttml Suuarnlloy. WM. B.TI1RALlw TERMS: . . TiinRDorLAK)r.R absum, which mnjfbeiliiohirff(! bvT t f Two ur in -"d f,ce f pLat-e, nr of por cont.eto A. or ( - . j P Th" imirnal 1. elan published " iny rlnalhovoan tiailv.neranniiin.ffM fri-Weekly. gi WKUNKHUAY EVENING, April 4, l40 Columbus and Xenia Railroad. We have seldom been called upoo lo notice a work or locomotive implement, which promise, more im porlance than tint, both as a connecting link m the great line of travel between the South and the North and East, and also on account of the great benefit which Hi., city, as well a. all the central part of this great State, must derive from .1. A- an investment f capital, it cannot fail to yield fair dividend, from the time of its completion; and these will increase considerably with every year of it. business. For when we con.ider thii mad a. connecting a series ol road, which will join it from the East and North with a like tern, which will connect with .1 from the We.l and South, the amount of buaineis ttaua thrown upon it must ultimately employ the mad to it. utmost ca-pacily. When we -peak of the line, of road which will connect with it from the East and North, wo refer to the Cleveland road, now under contract and rapidly progressing, having it. connection at no distant period with llwlNew York railroad. with the great central road from I'iltsburgh to IMnladelphia-aud with the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. While at it. western terminus its connection will be with the Little Miami road, the Mad lliver and Lake Erie road, both of which are now in successful operation, and within a brief period with the great western road leading thro the Slates of Indiana, Illinois and Missouri. These anticipation1 are no merely speculative ; their consummation is so nearly upon us a. to require no faith in prophecy to convince us of their speedy fulfillment. The iron for this road has all been purchased, on terms most favorabl" to the company ; the price having materially advanced immediately after the closing of the contract. The work upon the road is all under con'racl, and the grading is nearly completed. The cross-sills are being distributed, and the work of laying the rails will bu commenced so soon as the first iron arrive., which we understand will probably be in July or August. Willi a vigorous effort which we are assured the Directors arc determined to make, tho mad will be ready for the cars and engine, by the close of the present year. The Cleveland and Columbus Railroad is also under contract, with an almost certain prospect of completion during the next year. The iron will probably be laid down upon a part of the road the present season j and tho whole line through from Cleveland to Cincin-nati, will be made in the most substantial manner, on the most approved plan, and with a heavy T. rail. We cannot dismiss this subject without again referring to the peculiarly favorable location of this road in connection with tho Little Miami road and ihe Cleveland and Columbus road, as forming one great lineaf tummuniratiun between the Ohio river at Cm-nali, and Lake Erie at Cleveland ; which cities must long continue to lie the great commercial emporiums of the river and the lake. Let a straight tine be drawn from the mouth of the Ohio River to Uuiftlo on Lake Erie, and it will be seen how nearly the river, as far as Cincinnati, and the connected railroad thence to Uuifalo.by tho way of Columbus and Cleveland, will, in its general course, coincide with such straight line ; clearly indicating to the traveller the shortest and most expeditious route between these two points. As an uninterrupted line throughout the year for the conveyance of either passengers or freight, the Ohio River above Cincinnati can scarcely be relied upon. Up to this point it is uninterrupted throughout the year; and notwithstanding the prevalence of railroads, and the prospect of their rapid increase, it may safely be assumed that in the great amount of travel from the south to the north and east, in the spring, and in the opposite direction in the autumn, a large portion will continue to ascend and descend the Ohio Hiver to and from this point. Tho rather ol Waters, with his giant arms spread far into tho wilderness of the West, will ever continue by means of these tributaries, to gather into his bosom ihe travellers from those remote regions; and in their journey toward the rising sun, these travellers will ascend by the Ohio to the Queen City of the West, and from then by that line of travel which will offer tho most direct, rapid, safe und easy passage, to their place of destination. And in this respect we can confidently say that the road from Cincinnati to Ch v.'land, by Ihe way of Columbus, the Capital of the Stato of Ohio, will possess advantages snprior to any other. In addition to the travel upon this line, which wilt doubtless be heavy, the amount of freight must also be very great ; particularly that of produce north and south from Columbus, and of live atock from the fir famed Scioto Valley. Had we time, and were it consistent with a brief article like this, we could gather up statistics upon this subject which would satisfy the most sceptical ; but any one having a partial acquaintance only with the section of country through which this road passes, and with its unparalleled fertility, must be satisfied that at no distant period this road will be taxed lo its utmost capacity. The friends of this line are sanguine in their anticipations; yetjudg. ing from past experience, standing as we yet do, only upon the threshhold which is to usher us into the presence of the magnificent results which will hereby follow, we cannot but think those anticipation, will be more than realised. Ohio University. It will bo a source of gratification to the friend, of this pioneer literary institution in Ohio, to learn, that after a temporary suspension on account of pecuniary embarrassments, the University was re-organixed last fall under favorable auspices. The faculty now consists of Rev. AtrniD Rtobs, D. D , President, and Prof, of Mathematics and Moral Philosophy. William W. Matiixh, A. M , Vice President, and Prof, of Nat. Philosophy, Chimistry and Geology. Rev. Aaiioh Williams, A. M., Prof, of Greek Ian-guage and Literature. Amnion I) alla au, A. M.,I'rof. of Latin language and Literature. William James Hook, A. M., Prof, of Rhetoric, and Asso. Prof, of Mathematics. It is with some confidence that the University now appeals to the public for a return ol its patronage and former favorable regard. The whole number of its alumni is 145, embracing some whose fame is co-ex tensive with our whole Republic, and whose merits reflect honor upon their alma muter. The Ohio University is located in the v Hinge of Athens, whose population, (numbering about 1000, drawn together mainly by the University,) is distinguished for intelligence, refinement and morality. Butter. Good Butter is an indispensibln requisite to a good meal. Tho truth Is, no housewife can spread her hoard acceptably without it. Upon the old plan, butter is unattainable except at tho expense of great la-bor. Messrs. Gill and Tillinghast advertise in our paper to-day, their Improved He acting Atmospheric Churn, by which this labor i. converted into tho mere- est circumstance. Only think of three or four gallons of winter cream being converted, in the short space of .even minutes, and by an effort to which the strength of a child is ample, into rich butler, floating in masses in ils native milk! See advertisement. From the Itoeheatcr Democrat. Trudo of the West. To socure a portion of the Western Trade appears to be, at present, the leading object of commercial en-terprize. Almost every railroad in the northern States hi a a connection, a terminus, or a branch, through which it hopes to seixe a portion of the great prize. The Slate of New York, through her great artery, expects always lo retain the "lion's share;" hut as her improvement policy line not kept pace with the irrowlh of the country, other route a have been pro jected, with encouraging prosecta of success. The IJoalouiaria believe the completion ot the (Jguensburg road will secure lo them a rich and profitable .hare of the trade, and the great southern line looks to ihe same quarter Tor its principal support Even I'hilailetphia is devising means to compete with New York, by the construction or shorter lines from that city to Lake Erie, through the interior of Pennsylvania. All these projects are the result of sagacity and foresight, and lull within the range of possibilities. The same cannot be said of a magnificent scheme broached at a great Railroad Convention held at Montreal a few dnys si.ice, composed of delegates from all parts of Canada. It was there proposed to construct a line of railroad from Sandwich, opposite Detroit, to toehec a distance of seven hundred mile., and connect all the principal towns and cities on the northern shore of the lake and river. By this arrangement, when carried into oeration, Canada would inonopolixe all or nearly all of the trade of tho American luko country. The coat would bo only about tiiiiitv-fivk millions or uoi.i.AHS, nne-lhird of which is to be raised in Canada, and the remainder furnished by Ihe English Government- Willi revolution .taring them ui the face, it must be con tensed this is a bold scheme. As it can never be more thiiu a scheme, it may be well to pass it over as such. Tho movement is important, so far as it shows the feeling on the subject of the Western trade. Men of sagacious minds, correct in judgment and cautious in action, deem no expenditure too great to secure the trsde of the West. This proposal on the part of the leading business men of Canada, to reject the water communication between the two points, is a virtual acknowledgment that the Hi Lawrence, with ils shallows and bars, it. rapids and side cut., cannot couiioto with the rival routes of this State. This is the opinion of all who have investigated the subject. With the Erie canal enlarged throughout, the Histo of New York may aafrly bid defiance to the competition of the great river the navigation of which the English Government has always guarded with such jealousy. TIIIJHNUAY EVENING, April 5, 1H4D. Briitto Vnllcf Itullrond. The citizens of Portsmouth, at a special election on Saturday last, decidrd (only three vote, in the nega tive,) tn subscribe (7.',000 to the eapilat stock of the Scioto Valley Railroad. Individual subscriptions, to the amount of J'J.'OUO, have also been obtained in that place. No doubt is felt that the county of Scioto will subscribe gHIH),O00, under the provisions of tho recent act of the Legislature. The spirit with which the people of Portsmouth take hold of tho enterprise au gurs well for its success. Btkamboats uh WrsTF.ns Watkhs According to a statement in Hunt's Magazine, the total number of boats now running upon all the stn-ains emptying into ihe Mississippi, is ."?'J. The ton a go uf these (Hints i. HH,tM.'i tons their estimated value aVI.lr'.l,- 7! the yearly outlay fl:',!'-0,7.i.i, and tlie annual anting 17, I,HJII. The largest number uf tin? boats now running, lose money, while th entire capital is exhausted in tour years. Tn Public AnvsiiTisisa Knavxrv. " hide. pendent,' the able correspondent of the Philadelphia North American, in a letter Irom vaalimgloii ol (lie 'Ju'th tilt, aays: " It is proper the Whig press throughout the country should understand, that Mr. Buchanan, shortly before going out of ollice, contracted with Ihe Loeoloco newspapers, for the publication of the laws of the United States and other advertising connected with the Department of Slate until the Mill ot September next. This piece of management, which mar welt hs regarded as more ingenious lhan creditnble, will have the effect of appropriating for six months lo come, a large amount of patronage which legitimately be longs to the present administration, and which 1 believe ha. uniformly attached to the party coming into power. "Hie greuineis wnn wnien i lie so i.ocniocos aciscu upon every crumb of public patronage, a tier the peo pie decided that they were unworthy of trust or confidence, is only nmalled bv their audacity, in now claiming perpetuation of the possession, which they have held, almost uninterruptedly, ana w me almost total exclusion of Whigs, for full twenty year.. They cent to regard the olficrs as birthrights and life-estates, and when it is proposed to distribute them nn any principle of equably, forthwith they In? I low proaenptmn, as if disfranchised of their hereditary rights, or deprived of their legal possessions." Aid and Comfort lor tho Locofocoa. The ediior of the Chillicolhe Advertiser, good Lo- cofoco as ho is, finds himself unable to rejoice over the doings of his party in tho General Assembly, during the late session, nr to manifest great satisfaction In the results which have been produced With more Independence than is usually to be found among the followers and ropyist. of the Statesman, ho gives to the public temperately, and at the same tune boldly Ins opinion upon the political events of the aesaiuii, ai follows: "The Legislature adjourned on Monday last, after ono of the most unprofitable sessions ever held mice the organisation ot our Hi ate government. We had intended tins week to have noticed more fully than we have heretofore done, some of its ads, but will de fer it to another occasion. With the exemption of the passage ot the joint resolution lor submitting the qnes lion ot a New Constitution to a vole of tho people, little has been done, but what had Inciter have been left undone. We venture the prediction that Vw of character of the Stale. There has been a vast deal uf Tub V F.ttA Cm uoutb to CAt.tronaiA. Letters received in this city from a citizen who took the Vera Crux mule to the Pacific, represent it as anything but the route for the emigrant, either on the score of expense or dispatch, lie and his party were some twenty days on the road from Vera Crux to the city of Mexico, snd on the way, they were subjected lo Ihe most extravagant exactions for the means, of nonveynnce and for the necessaries of li'e. Among other regulations travellers are not allowed to proceed in parties exceeding ten persons, and tho road is traversed chiefly on mules. To compensate, however, for these delays and exenses, the weather was fine, and the health of the party exceedingly good. .Mirny Journal, An F.xTr.MMvi Tmiai.. Geo Washington was en trial yesterday before Judge Hill, nn a charge of assault and battery, with an attempt to kill William Henrv Harrison. It is almost unnecessary to say that lliey were both ,( colored gentlemen. "Hujfalo turn. Ohio Poi.tTirs The legislature of this State (a nHy which bids fair to bo as memorable as ihe Rump Parliament) atljuurned on the $lh. The session lasted I 111 pay days, and was the longest under the tilate Constitution With little to do at tho start, more time has been consumed, and more money .pent, than ever before. The Locofocoa have exerted themselves lo Ihe utmost to fasten radical mean ores upon the Slate, and the Whigs hare worked a. hard to roll back tho lido uf innovation. It is in Ohio, aa it ought to bo everywhere lor Ohio ts a Slate in which New York and other Stales have a direct pecuniary interest a subject of congratulation that such a body has been dispersed with so littla damage to the credit and fair those who have figured there this winter, will ever ap pear in Columbus again as ihe Represeiitativeaol any (tort ion of the people uf this titate. Justice may be slow, but it is sure." Wo have, from lime to time, seen, and have given to our readers the evidence of ait existing schism in the Loeoloco party of the Slate, having its origin in the selfishness of ils organ here, and of the clique with which it is con ur cud. Strenuous as are the exertions made to suppress every public evidence uf its existence, and vigorous as are Ihe elforts to create new issues which shall unite the masse, ol the party, and render tls members oblivious of their ancient wrongs, .till the rottenness which is sealed at the very heart of its organisation has created a loathing against the disease and ils authors, which is deslii;ed to rankle in Ihe bosom uf the party until it produces dissolu. lion, or until the infected members ate sloughed oft' to perish by that rapid decay which nature provides, aa wll to r.d itself of the unsightly and unwind, ss for the bem-ht of those as yet untouched by disease Mr. a i . . ... ' . ...... lu,.r Mammon naa tiecome a permanent resident at Washington, and haa taken a bouse on ouo is in her m year, his seen every 1 resident inaugurated, and Man,, t Tiv.d remc.n branr u Ihe p,a, .,( l,.y inlmX , 1k, ral and political questions of tho day. In a Dad State. The Major General of the Statesman is, just at this time, in great trouble because he i. unable to convince himself that the Whigs of the State are serious in their advocacy of a convention to amend the constitution of the Stato. Being an individual of so great sincerity himself, he i. pained, no doubt, to observe any symptoms of a want of it in others, and so he sounds the. alarm; and as we are also io a little trouble about hypocrite, and aristocrats, we will do our be 1 1 to help him on. He says . "Look out Demochats! Monr. Dkokptiob at- TEMPTXD BV THK KxilEHAL PARTY ! ' To which we suggest the addition : Strike a light ! Them a is Niaqr.R lit a fit ! "The Whig press, in various parts of tho State, ahk hypocritically pretending to be friendly to a convention to amend the constitution." (So they am ) "This is a mere trick "(Hor.ui pacut) " and originates in a desire to obtain a majority of Whigs in the convention" (Good Lord!)" for the purpose of defeating any amendment giving power to the people" (Where of course his excellency is very anxious to havo it placed ) "They are aristocrat and mimarchtMts." You should have said " Federalist" and the vocabulary would have been exhausted, and you could have begun again at the beginning. Now, alt the humbug of the Statesman is tho baldest kind of stale trickery, played oft" again and again, until tho merest novice can sue through it, from beginning to end. The editor and the clique with which he works, cate no more about constitution nor amendment than they do about tho laws of the Hottentots. Among themselves, they do not even make the pretence. The past winter was spent in plotting to discover some species of new issue, which could be made before the people at tho next election. First, Home slend Exemption'' was tried, under the management of tho astute Senator Dimmnck ; but it waa no go. There was no party against it no chance for a fight over the question ; and having discovered that such was the case, even the love of its parent declined towards it, and it was suffered tn die for the want of proper nursing. There was love of the poorpeoplt for you ! lavESTioATioit into v fraud of the previous session was next aroused ; but soon ils authors found that they were likely to get more lhan they bargained for, and to use the expressive phrase applied by Se-1 nalor Whitman to the Locoftco doings of the session a "gtorinu fizzle " was the result- O ! the pious haters of fraud ! Now, there is nothing left but the constitution movement; wliicL tin y care just as much about aa any other. To ibis too, there is no opposing party. Everybody ii willing to submit the question to everybody in all coolness and quietude. Rut this will not answer tho Statesman's purpose. The editor must get up a fight with somebody, or his hopes of the State printing lor the next year are cold pour persecuted patriot! And he talks about aristocrats and monarchists! The man who has ridden the Slate, as witches are aid to jride unlucky steeds who has ridden his party until it has sacrificed honor, caste, principle,self-respect, collective supremacy and individual prospects at whose nod all Locofocodom bus bowed, and before whoso car and ell'igy it has fallen this man, the only specimen our Stato lias produced of a monarch and nn autocrat, talks about tho Whiga of the State as monarchists and aristocrats- Franklin County liinlo Society. The anniversary of this society was held laat night in tho First Presbyterian Church of this city. In the absence of the President, the Rev. Dr. Hoge was called to the chair. From tho reports of the officers it appears that during the past year, the systematic supply of Franklin county with the Uihle has been nearly completed. About 1400 hundred copies of the Holy Scriptures in different languages, were circulated. Wo were surprised to learn than the contributions by churches and individuals in thi. county during the year, do not exceed $'i00. Tho name of the society waa changed to the Columbus and Franklin County Bible Society." After the transaction of the usual business, the Rev. W. P. Strickland, Agent of the American Bible Society, detailed tho operations of that society, and of the friend, of the Biblu throughout the world, at some length, he wa. followed by tho Rev. Mr. Tyng of this city, in an exceedingly interesting and eloquent address, on the peculiarly protectant character of the Bible cause. It is to be regretted that the threatening aspect of the weather prevented a more numerousattendance. LTMrs. Funny Kemblu Rutler has concluded her aeries of Shukspeariaii readings ut New York. Quite a sensation was produced by her reading the play, Measure for Measure. As Mrs. Butler read it, of course some passages were ommitted, but the ladies and gentlemen present had their Shakspeares with them for the purpose of comparison. The aucienccs have been of the most refined and intelligentdescription. 03 The U. S. ship Pkkhi.e is not expected to leave tho coast of China before tho 10th of April. She is detained for the protection of American residents; danger being apprehended from a difficulty between the British and the Chinese. The I' re bio in the mean time will visit Shanghai, Amoy, Nmgpo and other ports, returning to the U.S. by Ihe Cape of Good Hope. The Preble was at Hong Kong on the 7th of January. NkwYohk CiiAiiTKit Elkction The Whigs have nominated Caleb S. Wood hull for Mayor, and the Barnburners Mynhert Van Schairk. The Hunkers were to make their nomination on Monday night. Qj A Puseyilo r. urate in England, insists on having the baptismal font taken to the brook before baptism, because the water ought not to bo conveyed into the church in an unconsecrnted vessel. Qj" Commodore Charles W. Morgan takes the command of the Mediterranean Heel, rice Commodore But ton, deceased. ?w York. Mrs. Fogg premeditated evil prevented by Ihe firmness, tho uprightness, and the moral courage uf the conservative members of the Legislature. We regret to say that, excepting the Dorr Revolution in Rhode Island, the country hits witnessed nothing so disgraceful aa Ihe deliberate attempt made in uiuo io irampie me uauui box, the lawa and the constitution, under fool. Wo have that respect tor the good sense and good judgment of the people of tin. Htale, which induces us to lielieve mat lliey will pill tne mars 01 coiiuein-nation upon the men who have fitfiirrd in this warfare upon public order. To believe otherwise, would he lo believe that the people uf one of I ho most intelligent Stnte.of the Union were indifferent to their own happiness and security. Vr York t'.tpress. Alt F.VTRAnRPINAHV HaLLOON AcMnN ASH H- rcuMioK, A Frenchman named Vrnlalle, ascended from New Orleans on the llttt instant, in a balloon, with his head downwards, and slier going through numerous " slack rope" evolutions, be rose about a mile, when the balloon exploded, and precipitated turn to the earth from a distance of 7IHHI feet t tho lletj says, other papers say several hundred, and what is more astonishing, he was not tho least injured. Ho owed his miraculous escape from death to a rose bush in Ihe garden wheie lie landed. The wind being very strong, the balloon was in a tnrnaiire kept up in such a manner as to break (he fall. Mr V. w aa very emu posed, and I'lclanut-d, on rising Irom ihe rose bush, and picking up a rose that ho knocked olf iu the 1'jII, " Vi er, this is a very sweet spot." Littu From California. The New Orleans Picayune haa papers from ('ali form a to the &lh January. The accounts from the mines represent that although the winter has been severe, the miners havo not su tiered. The digging has been much interrupted by floods. Tho Sacramento had risen fifteen feet in three days. Snow lo the depth of from six lo twelve inches covered the ground-Communication between Fort Sacramento and the mining district was entirely cut off at the latest date. Co. Benton s famous teller to the people of Cali fornia, was published on the lllli of January. The following week tho editors ol the "Alia California" remarked upon it aa follows : Cot- 1 1 kk tom's LtTTr.ft. In tho main, tho letter of Col. Benton, which we published lust week, is a well meaning document, but be lias evidently mistaken the calibre ot the community tie was addressing. It certainly must Ite esteemed aa a most particular ta-vor by the citizens of California that he has extended to them his patronage ; and the paternal solicitude for our welfare that he exhibits does credit lo his intelli gence and humanity. His personal attacks upon tin gnu lied army oiii- cers are in bad taste, and by many will be considered unjust. His recommendations to the people of this country. although partaking strongly of tho tone which a ped agogue may lie supposed to assume lowaru a pupil, are substantially whit the citilen. are now acting on; and with tho .auction of his great name it i. to be hojied that tin cam of Provisional Government will not bo allowed to retrograde." The convention to form a Provisional government i. to assemble on the 1st of May, the ongiiul tune fixed (the 5th of March) having been changed, in or der that parts of the territory might be lairly represented, and to wait to see tho action uf Congress on the subject. The now. of the election of Gen. Taylor reached San Francisco on tho tiTith uf January. Gen. Lane had arrived on his way to Oregon. He took the southern route, from Santa F to Los Angu- los. Very little is said in the papers on tho subject of gold. The perpetrators of the barbarous murders at San Miguel bad been arrested and executed. XT The Statesman of Tuesday calls us to order for having admitted into our columns an article from the Lancaster E press which speaks of Senator Whit m am as sn "ass, and cites, to repel the imputation oi asi nine qualities in that gentleman, the fact that ho waa appointed by the General Assembly, ono of a com mittee to revise the school laws of the State. Now the epithet may have been improper and uncalled for, and the copying of it on our part ill considered ; but of all the ridiculous things connected with the affair, the defence or avoidance of the Statesman strikes us as the most sublimely (excuse us) dimktyiih. How would it read in a colloquy? Iancittr Krprtst, (rampa a.) Senator Whitman is an ass. Ohio Statesman, (arrumtntativt.) Nay, hut he 1 made a committee to revise the school laws of the Stato. How then can he be an as.? Stati Journal, (dogmatical.) Gentlenion, there is a want of prouf on both sides. I he cause is continued. The Statesman is recommended to examine the chapter on nun styuiturs, in Prof Chop's Logic, Vol. 17, p VXMi, Uerinuflly, however, in reply to the Statesman, we never intended to give publicity to any article by which the public should be so far misled as lo suppose that Mr. Whitman was descended from ancestors who were imported from Spain or Malta, or that he himself is gifted with actual ears ol extraordinary longitude, or ornamented with a dark stripe down his shoulders. Ws neither arguo with the Guernsey JefTersonian that he is a ton that is to say, a n-al, frona fide roaring lion, nor wilh our friend of Lancaster, (if he is desirous lo bo understood in that manner,) that he is an actual, long tailed, lough hided, crooked-legged, hammer headed Jack ass. If we have done or said anything lo inculcate upon the public a belief so monstrous, wo regret it. We thank the Statesman for calling our at tention to it. And in order that tho reparation may be as public as the offence, and the proof of the incor rectness of the imputation most complete, we hereby make the Statesman the oiler of a very accurate wood cut portrait uf that gentleman, with full liberty lo pub' hah the same. Mr. Whitman an ass! Bless us: he is no more an ais than the editor of the 8 tales man himself. CntSA. The net revenue of tho Chinese empire for the year 1N)7 amounted to 70 millions of dollars. Tho expenditures were about the same. The taxes are nearly all direct, and under the t.hmeao system, the expenses of collection are fully equal lo the amount paid into the Treasury. Whenever publm works are tu bu undertaken, nr any extraordinary expenditure, the government collects patrmtio contributions which sometime, amount to very large sums. The donors are frequently rewarded for their munificence by appointment to lucrative ollice. Tho minimum stun appropriated to the iersnnal use of the Emteior, is stated at twelve millions and a half of dollars. i;i. FRIDAY KVHNING, April 0, LH1U. Tho Rhode Island election took place yesterday, Mr, Clay has rt turned tu Ashlaud. (LT Mr. DempHter is in N sang here last night. (Lj Tho starving Irish of the dmccso of Meath, have looser i bed 1,000 in aid of his Holiness Pope Pius IX. Times of Iloldiitff Courts of Common Pit-as la tho He vi; ml Circuit COURTS OF COMMON PLEAS. VIRST CIIUUIT. Preble March 7, May '-!, September aC. Miami March lil, July ''", October 17. Darke April 4, August H, November 7. Montgomery April 17, August 'Jl, Nov. SO. ar c orti emeu it Morrow Feb. a7. May ail, Sept. 2Tj. Marion March G, June ft, October 2. Drlatrari March tfo, June ia, October!). Vratrford April , June lit, Oct. . Seneca April 10, June Sli, Oct. lit I ttyandott April SI, July 3, Nov. IX Til Ittll ClttCUIT. TVtimAwU-Fcb. S7, May SO, Aug. SH. Mahoning March 111, June IS, Hept. 11. I'ortngc March S7, June Sli, Sept. So. Ashtabula Am 1, July 10, Oct. 0. Summit April SI, July S4, Oct. S3. FOURTH CIRCUIT. Ptrry Jan. Hi, May 8. Hept 4. Licking Jan. HO, May l.", Oct 0. Muskingum Feb SO, June ft, Sept. 18. Cothocton March LI, May SI), Oct. at). Firm circuit. Columbiana March '., June l!), Sept. 18. Stark April "J, Aug. 7, Oct. Sa. Tustaratcas April ai, Au;. SI, Nov. 30. C'arroff May 7, Sept. a, Nov. IS. sixth cihcuit. Working March fi. June II, Sept. 17. Fairfield March IS, June H, Sept. SI. J(M-April S, July D, Oct. ITi Pickaway April SU, July ao, Nov. 5. ir.YKNTIf CIRCUIT. Jfof'tr Feb. 20, May lit, Sept. (irtrn March ia, June ft, Oct. 10. Clinton March S7, July 17, Oct. aa. rt'nrrsn April 10, Aug. SI, Nov Sti. IOIITII C1HIIIIT. Morgan Feb. SH, Juno 10, Sept. IH. Ili uhington March IS, July a, Oet. S. Mfis March S7, J uly 17, Oct. IG. Athens April S-l, Aug. 14, Nov. U- S1BTII CIRCUIT HAMILTON CUUNTV. Cirii 'firms Feb. 1, May 17, Nov I. Criminoi Term Jan. IS, March lii, July 5, Oet.4f Superior Court Jan. 4, April , July f, Oct. 4. Criminal Corrt Jan. U, April a, July a, Get. S. Commercial Court Jan. 1, April S, July Ji, Oct. 1. tktii riticiiir. Clermont March (i, July lit, Sept. IS. .VArW-March S7, July SI, Oct. 10. iit(rnApril III, Aug. 14, Oct S4. Faifttte April S4, Aug. SH, Nov. I a. WoW-May 11, Sept 4, Nov. Si I. KLV.VFNjTII llttrtllT. Holmes February IS, May 14, S. pt. 3. Wayne Feb. Sti, May SI, Sept. 17. Mtdtna .March IS, May S't, Oct. 15. AthJand March li, June 11, Oct. 1. ttichland April S, June Irt, Oct. Sit. An-Apnt Sa, July !, Nov. IS. Twklftii rinri it. Franklin March ia, June fi, Sept. ltJ. M.iiiin April 10, June Sti, Sept. 4. CmrA-Apnl 17, July a, Oet. 0. Cnimiti1'-May I.July 17, Oct. S3. hqnn May ', July 31, Nv li tmon May SO, August 14, Nov. SO. TtllltTKFNTII CIIUUIT. i Feb. 10, May SI, Oct 1. Huron March IS, Juno 4, Sept. 17. Sandusky March Sti, June It, Oct. 15. Mood-April S, October SS l.uras April (i, June S5, October Sti. Ottawa May H, September II. Foi'nTKKKTII rtHCI'IT. turaiii-Feb. 13, May SS, Sept II. Cmjahoga March 10, June 10, Get. S. Utauga Apul 3, Juno 5, Oct. 30. Lois April 17, August 7, November SO. FIFTF.F.NTII CIRCUIT. Iltlmimt March G, May SO, Sept. IH. (iMrrniry March S7, June 10, Oet. 10. jIIhnfim April 10, July 31, Oct. S I. It tt rrison Apr it SI, Aiit(ni 1 1, Not. G. Jisrwn May M, August S, Nov. SO. IITKRTlt riHCtllT. Shrlhy-May 1, July S3, Oet. 10. Alltn March Sti, August Si, Out. SO. Hancock Aonl S. AuiMlst ii. N.i. ft. Jfririlia-April 10, August I I, Nov. 1 AuittaiU April 17, July 17, Out. S3. .Wercsr April S4, July m, uci. a .KVKrtTKKNTH CIHIIMT. Pike Feb. ,June 10, Sept. II. Jurison March 13, June Sti, Sept. S." Scioto March S7, July 3, Out 0. rfiierenrn-April S4, July SI, Oet. S3. CWha-May 0, July 31, Nov. 6. rmiiTKRitrii circuit. JrjfiiHce March Sti, July 3, Sept. 17. MilfMSM Mar 7, July 10, Nov. SO. i'urnfim April 17, July 17, Nov. S7. I nn H art-April 10, Oct. S3. llmry May H, Nov. 6. Paulding April, S4, Oct. 0. urauiuR court or clrvklano. February b, May 7, August (i, November 5. Tux Wntn Platform. A Michigan correspondent of the Rochester Democrat states that in the Michigan House ot Representatives on tho fun instant, Mr. Morton, a Democralia member, moved for the reading of the Whig Plailonn. Thereupon the honorable Mr. Coe oouimeiiced reading to the House the (7owlit(im of the I Httrd State. An attempt was made to stop the reading, but "one of the Loco, got up and insisted that he should go on ; that the document sppearcd tu be interesting, and he had never before hcant it read. He bad sought for it in vain in bis town, and he wauled to know what itwoabout. tin had no doubt it would be new to moat of them." Parly discipline, howuver, choked tho reader down. Oi n Zack is roMtrtu ! Gov. Fish has received a teller from Washington, giving the ngrceahlu information that President Taylor will attend tmr next Stale Fair at Syracuse. Of course the old hero will pas. through tin. city, on the way. Wo can even at tin. distanco of time, imagine thw excite im-iil In. advent will create. .V. 1'. F.rpres: Mora about (hut Wicked and Alulluious Falsehood. Tho Nlutehmrm still continuing to pettifog Tor its friend Or. Olds We charged Dr. Olds with having altered, erased and added to his testimony given before the committee of Investigation of the Senate. The Statesman replied that tho editor of that paper had seen the manuscript testimony, and that no such changes had been made. We rejoined that we had the original manuscript in our possession, with tho marks uf the alterations which had been made now upon it, which we offered to exhibit. Upon this the Statesman suddenly goes offupon another tack. It admits the alterations winch it is pleased to term corrections, and then makes a grave pettifoggery upon the circumstances under which this correction took place. It waa not made in the night. Oh, no; that would be wrong ; hut early in the morning. Wo stand corrected ; excuse u. ! The room wa. not broken into, a. the Journal has wilfully, falsely, mnlicioualy, criminally, federally, monarchically, aristocratically, ond with malice prepense declared. It was entered by the assistance of the Locofocochair-man of the committee The testimony was not changed nor altered it was corrected : 'lis strange there should such difference be 'Twist twaedlc-dutn and tweedle-dee ! Surely, if the straining at a gnat is to bo looked upon as alogical preliminary to the swallowing of acatii-e, the stomach of the ediior of the Statesman may bo set down as the most likely placo to find the humpbacked animal, that exists this side the deserts uf A-rabia.Now all this dust is kicked up to hide the real state of Ihe case a tiling which the Statesman cannot and will not try to meet. It is rnsy to equivocate it is easy to charge us with falsehood; it is easy, alas ! for the Statesman to tell a jib; but the dillicullies of the casf are not got over by any such means. We char-1 god Or. Olds with having altered his testimony in ma terial points, in such a manner as not merely to change its effect, but to give to that effect a totally difli-rcnt 1 and opposite character; and wo charged that this was done in tho absence of that member of tho committee, who of all others, ought to have been present. This charge was made upon the authority of Mr-Denver, a member of tho committee, and was accompanied with the evidence of the original papers them-selves, with a written memorandum by Mr. Reaver, exhibiting the effect which the alteration would havo upon the testimony. The leading interrogatory of the examination put by Mr. Heaver to Mr. Olds was direct, and based upon an assumed state of facts. The answer waa equally direct, and in conformity with the statement upon which tho question was based. The subsequent examination adopted this answer as its foundation. The change made by Dr. Olds consisted, first in such an alteration uf this answer as to moke it conform to a state of facts not contemplated in the interrogatory ; and second in tillering tli'j whole uf his subsequent testimony, to make it conform to the new standard. Of all this we have the evidence. The testimony of Dr. Olds as sworn to w as one thing, thst which appears in the report as corrected is another, and a very dtir.-rent thing. The first was consistent with itself, wilh truth and wilh reason ; tho other will bu found to be inconsistent on its face, and false in its statements. Editorial ChnnKOi Our neighbor, tho Rev. D. A. Randall, Editor of (ho Western Christian Journal, in his paper of this morning announces bis withdrawal from the editorial charge of that paper, which he has conducted with signal success for the three and an half years last past. The paper will henceforth be conducted by the Rev. J. L. Hatciirliikr, who has lor some time past been associated with Mr. Randall in that duty. Tho Western Christian Journal i. the organ of communication to the iJ tptist denomination of Christian, in thi. and the adjoining Slates. It has been conducted with candor and ability, and we have no doubt will contin ue, under the direction of Mr. Batchclder, t-t merit the confidence and support of that branch of tho Christen church. We trust it will bo well and liberally sustained. Ohio Camal. The canal i. open between Cleveland and Massillon. The first boat of the season arrived at Cleveland from Akron on Monday last. Com Mr tier of tiik Lakes. The vessels sailing on the lokes, under the American flag, number 1)14, of the value of $7,808,(100. There are 05 steamers, 45 propellers, 5 barks, J3 hrics, 048 schooners, and 1S3 sloops and scows. Tunci Davi fiiom New York to Milwaukik. Tho Central Railroad across tho Peninsula of Michigan is now completed from Detroit lo New Buffalo, on hike Wisconsin. JJy this routo and fast steamer, on the Hudson river and the Lakes, and the line of railway from Albany to Buffalo, a person may reach Milwaukie or Chicago in 7S hours from the city of Now York. ED Friend HuHPiiur.r is the Whig candidate for Mayor of Albany, N. Y. IT Rev. Dr. Brook a has resumed tho rectorship of Christ church, Cincinnati. Tho New Constitution. Tho constitution of Ohio provides for its own amend ment in the following way : 1st. Whenever '.wn-uurris of the ueneral Assem bly shall think it neeessary tn amend or change the constitution, they shall recommend to tlm electors, at the next State election, to volo for or against a con vention, Sd. The people are accordingly to vote at the next election. !! - If a mnioritv shnll vote for a convention, ttie next Assembly shall rail a convention, to consist of aa many members as there be in thu General Assent. toy, to be chosen in the same manner, place, and by tho same electors that choose the General Assembly. 4lh. The members so elected shall meet within three months after their election, for the purpose of revising, amending or changing the constitution. Io phtce is mentioned for the meeting ol the con vention, nor is it required that the constitution, as amended, &c, shall be submitted for the approval of the people. Our last Legislature, which, thank heaven, did ad journ at last, took the first step in passing the required ' recommendation," It now remains for (lie people to vole, at the next election, for or against a convention. Does our present constitution need amendment ? Thai s the ques tion how to be decided. Is it detective and insufficient tn answer the manifold interests and demands of our present condition as a State and a people i Aie its delects so radical and extensive that the true interest of the State requires their amendment? These are tho lueslious which it appears to us, are properly the sub jects of discussion. We are first to determine why ami whether we will leardown the old building. Wo shall have lime enough, after that, to detenu 1 00 how we shall build the new. ,ewark liazttte. Still Lntor From the Gold Region. The New York Herald of Monday, contains advi ces from San Francisco, California, to the 7th of Feb ruary. They were brought by Edward A. Suwer krop, Esq , who left San Bias on the Ut of March, and has made a very quick trip across Mexico. He met in Mexico about 1 000 Americans, Englishmen, itc , on their way to the Pacific coast, hound for Cali fornia. The Mexican banditti levied black mail nn all but armed parties of Americans. Tho latter had shown them tho elephant." The mail steamship California passed Mr. 8. about two hours sail from Maxatlan,on the night of the 15th of February. Sho waa bound to San Francisco. There were no coals at that port for her, and as she had only coal enough to take her up, it is a matter of uncertainty as tu her arrival at Panama on the 15tlt of Marcti, as waa expected. The vessel that carried Ihe coal for her lo Mazallan reached that port about twelve hour, after the California had left. She proceeded to San Bins to discharge. line weather had set in, and many diggers in con sequence were re-ooinmencing operations. 1 rade had begun to improve. Tho whole of Lower California was deserted by the mate inhabitant, who had gone north to the mine.. Largo quantities of goods were exacted daily from China, New South Wales, Tahiti and Valparaiso. The British ship of war Calypso was at Matxatlan, to leave soon for England. She would tako away over fcS.OOO.OOO in specie. Of this there were over ,(100 ounces of California gold, and of this 1 ,000 ounce, belonged to Mr. Suwerkrop. rimro were parties of gold seekers at Mazallan, wailinjr, a passage to San Francisco, but could not get any. Those that had gone up, paid $S00 in tho cabin and $-40 in the steerage distance about 1,500 miles The price of provisions had become mors moderate. On the 30th uf January, flour in parcels was selling al $10 per barrel; by the single barrel at flu'. Pork was dull at $30 per barrel. Salt beef could scarcely be sold. No one would give $14 per barrel fur it. The number of persons at the mines is variously stated at from seven to lifWn thousand. It was expected that tho spring freshets would wash out the gold in large quantities. A letter from Captain Folsnm in the National Intelligencer of the 3rd, dated January S3, contains some interesting fuels. It represents outrages as very numerous. The only tribunals are those of Judge Lynch, under Ihe authority of which several executions for murder havo taken place. Housebreaking, thefts, and robberies, are of almost bouily occurrence. Tho public aaluuiHliment ha. scarcely subsided after one murder has transpired, before another ia committed mors horrible than the first, ('apt. Folsoin dHs not anticipate any relief until Cnngies. acts. He recommends emigrants (rout the Eastern and Middle Stales to tako tho Panama route ; thoie witli families logo rm Cape Horn. Danger is apprehenned to the over-Innd emigrants from the wsut of supplies on the way, as the number taking that rule will be immense. The receipts at the custom house for tho month of January are stated at (lit),000, ami the revenue fur the current year ia estimated at $1,000,000. Between 3 or 4 millions in all had been obtained from the mine.. Late from Mkxico. From the City of Mexico new. to March II th has been received at New Orleans. Gen. Gariy had been arrested on charge of conspiracy. Gen. Sun ih's orders, prohibiting foreigners from working in the gold mines, created some excitement at Maxattan. A Peruvian bark, with 150 paasengers, was to sail nevertheless. Nothing important had occurred in any part of Mexico. Wst Point Acaov.mt Tkstiio.i ai, of Rr.srf.eT. --A meeting of tho First Class Corps of Cadets wss held at the Academy on tho SOth ull , for the purpose of expressing their feeliittfs m reference to the dealh of their classmate, D. Ciiari ks Hollrs, of Athens, Ohio, who died at his home on the 17th March. William Silvey, Jr., of Chillicothe, Ohio, was called In the chair, and J. G. Parke appointed Secretary. Resolutions of sympathy were adopted, expressing also the high esteem m which the deceased was held by Ins associates. It was resolved tu plans a monument over bis remains at Athens. Mr. Holies was a young man of high promise, and From (be (Jsliimore American. Horn hits tea and hi. Hoots There i. trouble brewing in South Carolina. Tho rest of ihe Union does not eeiu to be aware of tt but there is no doubt of the fact. The genial warmth of the Spring, instead of animating her mure kindly sympathies, seems only to ferment tho sap of her aa petity. Her patriotism and her palmettoea become i;reen together. The temperature of her heroic ardor rises with Ihe mercurv, and by tho time of the dog days she will bo equally ready for Ihe hydrophobia or a Ii lit 'Mm newspapers of South C arolina are talking of Committee, of Safely and Correspondence,non-intercourse, cotiliticalion, and such revolutionary things. All this is very alsriiuuir ; vet such is l ho apathy or the public mind that we observe no sirns of a wholesome terror anywhere, The liltlo Statu t. quite in aruest ; yet the public will not believe it and if they did believe it, so much is heroism al a discount that wo seriously fear no body would earn about it. Uut, lor our own part, such i. tho admiration we cherish for chivalry that it is always sure of our applause even though it appears mounted only on the slump, or figures nowhere but upon paper. It may be a perversity of taste, but we must confess that our idea of a hero is the greater in proportion as his stature is less;' we prefer Uen. thumb to the lle'gian giant; and cannot imagine a perfect champion except in h"gh-herled boots, and of .uch altitude only that he would have to aland on tip-toe to pull an adversary', nose. South Carolina is remarkable for perseverance in wrath. She varies only in the aspect, of it. Sho will not bo in a good humor on any terms. Her nose, like her musket, i. always cocked. She would considrr it an abandonment of dignity to put on an a liable look, and Slate rights would be in danger if she should once relax into a smile. The price of liberty ia eternal vigilance and she watches hers sn closely that she has no liberty to do anything else. The latest pronunciamento from the land of lofty doings is to be found in the Houth Carolinian of the Hitb iust. It is to the following effect : 11 The people of tins Slate may, after due deliberation and reflection, adopt a strict non-intercourse in trade and commerce, a regards the Northern States. Tins, if adopted, would doubtless have the same effect, but lo make it thoroughly etfertive it must receive the full consent of Ihe mass of the people. It must be adopted only alter mature and calm delibera tion Wo want to see no storm raised within our own confines; we would deprecate any measure that would array one portion of the people of this State against tho oilier, either in sentiment or action. Whatever course is deemed desirable, to be of any avail, it must be adopted with the greatest unanimity. When 'agnation' was necessary to amuse the people, it wea our duty to be diligent in the mailer. Now that the people have taken the imtiativo in their district meetings, our duty, and the duty of tho press throughout the State, wc believe to he the securing of perfect harmony and unanimity of opinion in their further acts and deliberations. To this task Ihe South Carolinian will apply itself, and will endeavor to avoid the agitation of any scheme which might carry within itself the elements of its own destruction, and consequently defeat our purposes. Confiscation ' of tha property of the people of the North has been hinted at and suggested. We believe such a proposition wholly indefensible at this lime. It is an extreme measure. and should only be adopted at the last extremity. And ia there any man of common sense ho does not know that such a procedure would at once involve us in civil war? Better, lar better, would it be for the whole South calmly to avow their determination to withdraw from the coiitederacy and define the limits of a new Republic. The course to bo pursued the mode nf action lo be adopted is now, we consider, entirely in the hands of the committees of Safety and Corresxndence. They must get to work. Tho people did not appoint tin-in under any other expectation hut that they would trork. We leel comment lliey will not abuse the solemn trust committed to their charge, and that we will hear from them al an early day. Our tune or limits will not permit us to consider the non intercourse proposition to-diy ; we Will do so probably hcrcalW. We believe tho suggustion la be a good one; and that no better means could be used to bring Ihe people of tho North tu their senses. But it must lw the voluntary sacrifice of the whole people, and must be the policy uf two or more State, to render it successful to any great extent." It ia lamentable that with a heart so set upon tr a- son tins utilorlunnle commonwealth should never tind her way to i. Tho Tantalus of Slates, she pines within siiiht of what she loiiirs for. vol cannot reach. She is always bailUd when sim nlwts rebellion, and cannot by any accident stumble upon it. The disclosure is given forth, however, thai it " most be the pal-ie.y of two or mure Stales lo render it successful to any great extent." llieru is the drawback. Site would wit1inL'lv break into Ihe citadel of the Union and despoil u of lis treasures, but she cannot venture without an accomplice ; iiu must nave "a centre bit ant a boy. ilul thus far she sits alone in the realms ol iion-conb nt. The Augusta (Ga ) Chronicle, one of the best papers of the South, gives some wholesome advice to the little teriiiagent Slate, which the latter, of course, will not follow. The Chronicle intimates that the best wsy to establish a proper degree of lion intercourse with the North is for the people of South Carolina to man. uiacture lor tliemsi-lvra every article now maile Tor them in New England ; that anti-abolition resolution, will not prevent llin Stale from losing a representative undur the ratio of the mat census; and it hn. the temerity tu aild that a carl load of good man ore ia worth inoro to the common wraith than a thousand suert resolution.. Tho idea! Statu rights and giuim, liberty and lime that tt should come to tins ! Dudsin-ful chivalry expands his oil. mled nostrils But it is further added that "the trade and commerce of a siiisll aggregate of deserted, deaolited cotton plantations" meaning thereby the nisctisntumus Stale nf South CsTi'lnm ' will be of liltlo roiue. quetice to the rest of the Union ; " and that msti ud of eiporling ao many emigrants and their pr p rty, for which no return whatever is let) liehitid, Smlh Carolina should tako measures to invite iininmunu with their capital, their industry and their enterprise, tn co mo and settle permanently within her limits. But, as wo have said, tins advice will not l fi.ll.wed at least not yet. South Carolina will sin k to her two tuples, polities and cotton ; and as the latter tails off she will cultivate the other more largely. Site mil manufacture nothing but resolutions. In proportion as sho lose, her represcntatiTca in Contfiess, lhee that remain, like the Sybilhuu books, will iiiercatf ut importance as Ihe number grows less ; if but one should be h it, the whole Stale would scarcely be lare U' oin n to ixoti him ; H all slioulil disappear, she represented in the lower house, as she al- ItLtb'HAPHIC DESPATCHES THK omn STATE JOVRXAU Connecticut Election. .... Niw Yobk, April A. LiUlori Oho Seal, Journal ; Tlicrei. no choice for Governor by tho people. The Legnlalure i. Wli,B, which eneurei Ihe election of the Wnigcnd,dle. Three I,ocofoco..r.lld 11,.,. gre. Tho lomih remain, in hi,i St. Louis Jtlunicipnl Election. ,., ,. St. Louu, April 3. tdilors Oho Stale Journal : The Locofoco iK-nerAl I. rim. .Ulj :.i. i l " .'cireu will, llllf OA- ception of Marshal. The board of Delegate, is Whig, and the Aldermen Locofoco. Tho city decided by a majority of 2,500 to loan half a million of dollars to iuu u.uo and Mississippi Kailroad company. One Day Later from Trance. Nxiv York, April 4. Editor Ohio Siatn Journal : By the arrival of a packet ship from Havre, we have Maria dates oflho Ihh ult. The news is unimportant. Tho money market was eaaiur, and a rise had taken place in tlio funds. The aspect of Italian a Ha ire caused no alarm. Rhode Islund Election. Ntff York. Anril ft. Editor of Ohio Slate Journal: Returns from I'rovidenen. Knnt and Wash inn inn counties for Governor stand, Whig 11937, Loco 27G0, free won jtw. Antiionv (Whig) i. probably chosen. In tho Eastern Cunirressional district. Kimo iWhiir is elected. Tho return, from tho Western district inairnt th success of Thurston, (Loco.) rillLAUKLPHIA. Anril fi Editor Ohio State Journal : The election in Connecticut has resulted in the loction of three Locofocoa to Cumrcss. and one Whir The Legislature is doubtful, but more favorable to the v nigs than former reports. Cul. Fremont nnd bis Pnrtjr. Tho disastrous accounts from Col. Fremont, which have so painfully excited the public mind lor some duys past, have induced us to imjuire at the source most probable to have the best inlonnationtor the beat opinions in relation to bis position. The result of this inquiry authorixea the belief that some of the most paint ill of these reports must be unfounded. All that relate, to ihe perishing of tho party by hunger and starvation are certainly so. Cot. Fremont wrote from the 1'ueblos, near the head of tho Arkansas, when about to cross the first range of mountains, the laat of November, that Ins supplies were ample to carry him Ihruugh that he had more flour than he wanted, and left some behind plenty of meat, and a reserve ol sugar and cotfue, and mac carom for hard limes, and for Ihe sick or disabled. Thus he had abundant provisions, beaijes the resource of above one hundred iiorses and mules, which dead or alive would be a long support to thirty-five men. If froxen to death, these annuals would remain in that state until spring, and continue, sound ; an that there wa. no danger of death uy atarvaiion i nat lliey penciled by cold, is another of the painful rumor.. Tina is improbable, though the cold must have been dreadful, and the snows fear- lully deep. All accounts, as he approached tho inoun. lams, from the Indians and traders, represented the winter as premature, and unusually severe. So much snow, so early in the season, all agreed had never ueen seen. II was in tlio last duys ut November that ho began tn climb the mountain range (above the Spanish Teaks) which divides the valley of the Upper Arkansas from Ihe head uf the Rio del Norte, latitude IWi-i, longitude about U6. The snow waa about breast deep to the horses when tlio party was last seen, about tivo in.les from the summit. Up to thi. point tho accounts are authentic, two men from the I'ueblos having followed to join Col. Fremont, but whom he did not receive probably not knowing them, it beinir his rule to take none but re liable men, whom he knew in these dangerous expedition.. There i. no doubt but that Col. Fremont got over these first ranee of mountains, and thus entered the valley of the Del Norte, near the head of the riv er, and (about) three degree, north of Santa Fe. A greater obstacle wa. .lilt before him. The great cen tral chain or the llocky mountains, there called the Sierra Madre Mother Mountain, lie knew the difficulty of crossing thi. great barrier, there reaching; the region of perpetual .now, and, if unable tu do it, expectrd to winter in .ome cove or valley where there tmgnt oe loreais ot evergreens, ceuar especially, which would furnish shelter, and pmbably game, wilh some dried grass snd soft wood for the horses to live upon. The account of his coming tn Taos, which is about a degree north of St. Louis, is proof that he did not crors the Sierra Madre, and, aa became in for horses, ho had probably lost all hi. by the cold and deep snows which he encountered alter ffetttnir in the valley of the let Norte. Tojudiru of that degree of cold, and depth of .now, it i. necessary lo refer to what they wero known to bo at Santa Fe, on the IGth of December, say two weeks after Mr. Fremont bad crossed to the valley of the Del Norte. I he eanm r e republican, received up to that day. says that the thermometer (Fahrenheit)waa twenty degrees below xero (liny twudegtuslwlow the freexing point; wiai ine snow, were over ine Dacks ol the horses in the gorges of tho mountains that the detachment of troop, with four guides, which had gone out in purmit of some marauding Indians, had become involved in these snows and with dilhcully extricated themselves that all traveling wa. slopped that per. sous had froxen to death and that such prematurity; and intensity nf cold and dep'h of .now, had never been witnessed. Thi. was at Santa Fe, about north latitude X deg 40 nun , longitude (, and at an elevation of seven thousand feet above the level of the sea. Al that time .Mr. Fremont and hi. party must have been about three degrees further north, and about a half a degree wrst, and at an elevation (supposing tho valley to continue rising to near its gorge m ll:o Sierra Madrt) of near eight thousand feet. The cold therefore must have been greater and the snows deejH-r, that at Santa Fe greater and deeper than the cold and snows which killed the thirty thousand horses of the French army in Kussia, Uts probable, then, that Mr. Fremont's animals were all killed near tho Lead of the Itio (irande del Norte. But the same probability doea not hold with respect to his men. They have resources which the pur animals had not. I if sides, they knew their danger and were preparrd for it. Mr. r rem on l wrote from Bent's Fort in sight of Ihe mounutns that he had his parly in Ihe most per-lect order, and every precaution taken for their aafety. They knew what cold waa. Tart of them had climbed tb St err .We rod a with him, when half the horses perished but no men. Tart ttsd crossed tho Santa Harlmra mountains with linn, Christmas day, ItMti, when above one hundred horses (Cahfnrnian horses) perished in a day, but no men. It is probable then, thit none of his men perished in the cold, and that is the belief of the best authority on the subject. That he csme alone, as it waa said, to Taos, ia no sign that his men were dead. It was his custom, when his party were in danger and needed relief, to go himself and bring it, first nuking them as sale as possible, taking two or three men with him (of whom his faithful servant Jacob, now a messenger to the Senate was one.) That he was on foot otily proves ihe loss of the horse's that be made tbrro hundred and fifty miles, as reported, in tune days, is proof that his feet were not I'roien that he went bark with Maj. Ueale, who went out with relief, is proof that lie expected to relieve Ins men and enable them to come m. It is probable that early in February he had them re futed and re-mounted in the settlements ol New Mexico, and renewed Ins expedition, crossing the Sierr Madre lower down. This Is the probable state of the party horses lost, but no men, and the expedition balked eud delayed twn or threo months. The supposition that the party lost their way ia wholly unwarranted. Mr. Fremont marked out his whole route before he set out, ai d he sod his men knew every day and every hour, where they were. He knew how to go to Tso. though he had never been there before. ,YI. Intel. would be poMt'ssed the lovo and esteem of all who knew him. ready is in the Senate, by a gigantic shadow. oiiircAuv. )im1, on the X int., nf pulmonary consumption, at the Inmtulmn for it a eviration uf the III lad, ia Ohio, Mr. An-tiiom lin.nr.RiV,f Ai-lilaml e.oonly, a! years. Tho derf(l rntere.1 Uio InaiiUilton ss a pupil in lilll, but itinniifli anl it ml miilioua iniUua, ms.lo aaeli rapid ad vsiteea m ilio tMliwmiihrril branr ties, llisl at lh com me nee-intuit of tlis term ol' !!I7, Ui Tnmtee nf tint Institution niipniiili'd him .irit,int lesebor, wild tlie privileut uf cott tumuli! Ho tiitlx s bu ImiI pntviouslv conmieiiCfHl. Idling In prolrirtetl illness, W hirll ho I lore Willi Ihfl for tiLulti t s trm Ih lieu-r in Him who burr llin cross for all, Iia wri tn.t.l l oiliiullv atlcntlril hy hit broihrr. ho has taken Hie ti.rjue lo AahUml eiinillv, w tie re lot bvre.iveil sed mot ber au.l sister Hill seu his remains coimnud tu the grow 'I be amialde ehimrter of ibis young man has endeararf bint to n cimnrtMl with llin limlitnhon, and hiapurting Irom tlifiu al an efl sn ws, Ins rmnlit uttKHii upon tbr eir-elr bo Irll, limb trio bent sud pupils litat in bun a sincere. Ineinl.sml tlie evnople ot imiinlfv, rer hauls u( rnmluel and mtt-Liritv of eli.ir.tetrr wbi' b he mhilntrd. will lootf live in tbr oieiii'irv ol' nil, anil luitnileit On ir inline nr Upon tho routine! nf lliin boni be jrniilsil as tear her and as Iriend, ( ommumr tint, Ihnl in lt.k i-i1t on Wednesday, thu 4lh inM . at hnlf past i iiVlwk I' M , Mrs, t-it ir a in. i il M, retiet of Thomas II. Ilonhtii.ol lhrtli.nl, t oon. On Tue-.il if, March .Sib, Kil v, consort of W, V., I.aw- III. t i lotiin:iljr u t.iku eon nt j, r yi are.

WEEKLY 0 0 STATE 0 DM A T VOLUME XXXIX. COLUMBUS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1840. NUMBER 33. FUllUSHKO F.VKKV WKDNK.NDAY MOKNINU, BY TH HALL & REED. Jiricem llw Journal BaiMinif. soul" cast oornerof High trootttml Suuarnlloy. WM. B.TI1RALlw TERMS: . . TiinRDorLAK)r.R absum, which mnjfbeiliiohirff(! bvT t f Two ur in -"d f,ce f pLat-e, nr of por cont.eto A. or ( - . j P Th" imirnal 1. elan published " iny rlnalhovoan tiailv.neranniiin.ffM fri-Weekly. gi WKUNKHUAY EVENING, April 4, l40 Columbus and Xenia Railroad. We have seldom been called upoo lo notice a work or locomotive implement, which promise, more im porlance than tint, both as a connecting link m the great line of travel between the South and the North and East, and also on account of the great benefit which Hi., city, as well a. all the central part of this great State, must derive from .1. A- an investment f capital, it cannot fail to yield fair dividend, from the time of its completion; and these will increase considerably with every year of it. business. For when we con.ider thii mad a. connecting a series ol road, which will join it from the East and North with a like tern, which will connect with .1 from the We.l and South, the amount of buaineis ttaua thrown upon it must ultimately employ the mad to it. utmost ca-pacily. When we -peak of the line, of road which will connect with it from the East and North, wo refer to the Cleveland road, now under contract and rapidly progressing, having it. connection at no distant period with llwlNew York railroad. with the great central road from I'iltsburgh to IMnladelphia-aud with the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. While at it. western terminus its connection will be with the Little Miami road, the Mad lliver and Lake Erie road, both of which are now in successful operation, and within a brief period with the great western road leading thro the Slates of Indiana, Illinois and Missouri. These anticipation1 are no merely speculative ; their consummation is so nearly upon us a. to require no faith in prophecy to convince us of their speedy fulfillment. The iron for this road has all been purchased, on terms most favorabl" to the company ; the price having materially advanced immediately after the closing of the contract. The work upon the road is all under con'racl, and the grading is nearly completed. The cross-sills are being distributed, and the work of laying the rails will bu commenced so soon as the first iron arrive., which we understand will probably be in July or August. Willi a vigorous effort which we are assured the Directors arc determined to make, tho mad will be ready for the cars and engine, by the close of the present year. The Cleveland and Columbus Railroad is also under contract, with an almost certain prospect of completion during the next year. The iron will probably be laid down upon a part of the road the present season j and tho whole line through from Cleveland to Cincin-nati, will be made in the most substantial manner, on the most approved plan, and with a heavy T. rail. We cannot dismiss this subject without again referring to the peculiarly favorable location of this road in connection with tho Little Miami road and ihe Cleveland and Columbus road, as forming one great lineaf tummuniratiun between the Ohio river at Cm-nali, and Lake Erie at Cleveland ; which cities must long continue to lie the great commercial emporiums of the river and the lake. Let a straight tine be drawn from the mouth of the Ohio River to Uuiftlo on Lake Erie, and it will be seen how nearly the river, as far as Cincinnati, and the connected railroad thence to Uuifalo.by tho way of Columbus and Cleveland, will, in its general course, coincide with such straight line ; clearly indicating to the traveller the shortest and most expeditious route between these two points. As an uninterrupted line throughout the year for the conveyance of either passengers or freight, the Ohio River above Cincinnati can scarcely be relied upon. Up to this point it is uninterrupted throughout the year; and notwithstanding the prevalence of railroads, and the prospect of their rapid increase, it may safely be assumed that in the great amount of travel from the south to the north and east, in the spring, and in the opposite direction in the autumn, a large portion will continue to ascend and descend the Ohio Hiver to and from this point. Tho rather ol Waters, with his giant arms spread far into tho wilderness of the West, will ever continue by means of these tributaries, to gather into his bosom ihe travellers from those remote regions; and in their journey toward the rising sun, these travellers will ascend by the Ohio to the Queen City of the West, and from then by that line of travel which will offer tho most direct, rapid, safe und easy passage, to their place of destination. And in this respect we can confidently say that the road from Cincinnati to Ch v.'land, by Ihe way of Columbus, the Capital of the Stato of Ohio, will possess advantages snprior to any other. In addition to the travel upon this line, which wilt doubtless be heavy, the amount of freight must also be very great ; particularly that of produce north and south from Columbus, and of live atock from the fir famed Scioto Valley. Had we time, and were it consistent with a brief article like this, we could gather up statistics upon this subject which would satisfy the most sceptical ; but any one having a partial acquaintance only with the section of country through which this road passes, and with its unparalleled fertility, must be satisfied that at no distant period this road will be taxed lo its utmost capacity. The friends of this line are sanguine in their anticipations; yetjudg. ing from past experience, standing as we yet do, only upon the threshhold which is to usher us into the presence of the magnificent results which will hereby follow, we cannot but think those anticipation, will be more than realised. Ohio University. It will bo a source of gratification to the friend, of this pioneer literary institution in Ohio, to learn, that after a temporary suspension on account of pecuniary embarrassments, the University was re-organixed last fall under favorable auspices. The faculty now consists of Rev. AtrniD Rtobs, D. D , President, and Prof, of Mathematics and Moral Philosophy. William W. Matiixh, A. M , Vice President, and Prof, of Nat. Philosophy, Chimistry and Geology. Rev. Aaiioh Williams, A. M., Prof, of Greek Ian-guage and Literature. Amnion I) alla au, A. M.,I'rof. of Latin language and Literature. William James Hook, A. M., Prof, of Rhetoric, and Asso. Prof, of Mathematics. It is with some confidence that the University now appeals to the public for a return ol its patronage and former favorable regard. The whole number of its alumni is 145, embracing some whose fame is co-ex tensive with our whole Republic, and whose merits reflect honor upon their alma muter. The Ohio University is located in the v Hinge of Athens, whose population, (numbering about 1000, drawn together mainly by the University,) is distinguished for intelligence, refinement and morality. Butter. Good Butter is an indispensibln requisite to a good meal. Tho truth Is, no housewife can spread her hoard acceptably without it. Upon the old plan, butter is unattainable except at tho expense of great la-bor. Messrs. Gill and Tillinghast advertise in our paper to-day, their Improved He acting Atmospheric Churn, by which this labor i. converted into tho mere- est circumstance. Only think of three or four gallons of winter cream being converted, in the short space of .even minutes, and by an effort to which the strength of a child is ample, into rich butler, floating in masses in ils native milk! See advertisement. From the Itoeheatcr Democrat. Trudo of the West. To socure a portion of the Western Trade appears to be, at present, the leading object of commercial en-terprize. Almost every railroad in the northern States hi a a connection, a terminus, or a branch, through which it hopes to seixe a portion of the great prize. The Slate of New York, through her great artery, expects always lo retain the "lion's share;" hut as her improvement policy line not kept pace with the irrowlh of the country, other route a have been pro jected, with encouraging prosecta of success. The IJoalouiaria believe the completion ot the (Jguensburg road will secure lo them a rich and profitable .hare of the trade, and the great southern line looks to ihe same quarter Tor its principal support Even I'hilailetphia is devising means to compete with New York, by the construction or shorter lines from that city to Lake Erie, through the interior of Pennsylvania. All these projects are the result of sagacity and foresight, and lull within the range of possibilities. The same cannot be said of a magnificent scheme broached at a great Railroad Convention held at Montreal a few dnys si.ice, composed of delegates from all parts of Canada. It was there proposed to construct a line of railroad from Sandwich, opposite Detroit, to toehec a distance of seven hundred mile., and connect all the principal towns and cities on the northern shore of the lake and river. By this arrangement, when carried into oeration, Canada would inonopolixe all or nearly all of the trade of tho American luko country. The coat would bo only about tiiiiitv-fivk millions or uoi.i.AHS, nne-lhird of which is to be raised in Canada, and the remainder furnished by Ihe English Government- Willi revolution .taring them ui the face, it must be con tensed this is a bold scheme. As it can never be more thiiu a scheme, it may be well to pass it over as such. Tho movement is important, so far as it shows the feeling on the subject of the Western trade. Men of sagacious minds, correct in judgment and cautious in action, deem no expenditure too great to secure the trsde of the West. This proposal on the part of the leading business men of Canada, to reject the water communication between the two points, is a virtual acknowledgment that the Hi Lawrence, with ils shallows and bars, it. rapids and side cut., cannot couiioto with the rival routes of this State. This is the opinion of all who have investigated the subject. With the Erie canal enlarged throughout, the Histo of New York may aafrly bid defiance to the competition of the great river the navigation of which the English Government has always guarded with such jealousy. TIIIJHNUAY EVENING, April 5, 1H4D. Briitto Vnllcf Itullrond. The citizens of Portsmouth, at a special election on Saturday last, decidrd (only three vote, in the nega tive,) tn subscribe (7.',000 to the eapilat stock of the Scioto Valley Railroad. Individual subscriptions, to the amount of J'J.'OUO, have also been obtained in that place. No doubt is felt that the county of Scioto will subscribe gHIH),O00, under the provisions of tho recent act of the Legislature. The spirit with which the people of Portsmouth take hold of tho enterprise au gurs well for its success. Btkamboats uh WrsTF.ns Watkhs According to a statement in Hunt's Magazine, the total number of boats now running upon all the stn-ains emptying into ihe Mississippi, is ."?'J. The ton a go uf these (Hints i. HH,tM.'i tons their estimated value aVI.lr'.l,- 7! the yearly outlay fl:',!'-0,7.i.i, and tlie annual anting 17, I,HJII. The largest number uf tin? boats now running, lose money, while th entire capital is exhausted in tour years. Tn Public AnvsiiTisisa Knavxrv. " hide. pendent,' the able correspondent of the Philadelphia North American, in a letter Irom vaalimgloii ol (lie 'Ju'th tilt, aays: " It is proper the Whig press throughout the country should understand, that Mr. Buchanan, shortly before going out of ollice, contracted with Ihe Loeoloco newspapers, for the publication of the laws of the United States and other advertising connected with the Department of Slate until the Mill ot September next. This piece of management, which mar welt hs regarded as more ingenious lhan creditnble, will have the effect of appropriating for six months lo come, a large amount of patronage which legitimately be longs to the present administration, and which 1 believe ha. uniformly attached to the party coming into power. "Hie greuineis wnn wnien i lie so i.ocniocos aciscu upon every crumb of public patronage, a tier the peo pie decided that they were unworthy of trust or confidence, is only nmalled bv their audacity, in now claiming perpetuation of the possession, which they have held, almost uninterruptedly, ana w me almost total exclusion of Whigs, for full twenty year.. They cent to regard the olficrs as birthrights and life-estates, and when it is proposed to distribute them nn any principle of equably, forthwith they In? I low proaenptmn, as if disfranchised of their hereditary rights, or deprived of their legal possessions." Aid and Comfort lor tho Locofocoa. The ediior of the Chillicolhe Advertiser, good Lo- cofoco as ho is, finds himself unable to rejoice over the doings of his party in tho General Assembly, during the late session, nr to manifest great satisfaction In the results which have been produced With more Independence than is usually to be found among the followers and ropyist. of the Statesman, ho gives to the public temperately, and at the same tune boldly Ins opinion upon the political events of the aesaiuii, ai follows: "The Legislature adjourned on Monday last, after ono of the most unprofitable sessions ever held mice the organisation ot our Hi ate government. We had intended tins week to have noticed more fully than we have heretofore done, some of its ads, but will de fer it to another occasion. With the exemption of the passage ot the joint resolution lor submitting the qnes lion ot a New Constitution to a vole of tho people, little has been done, but what had Inciter have been left undone. We venture the prediction that Vw of character of the Stale. There has been a vast deal uf Tub V F.ttA Cm uoutb to CAt.tronaiA. Letters received in this city from a citizen who took the Vera Crux mule to the Pacific, represent it as anything but the route for the emigrant, either on the score of expense or dispatch, lie and his party were some twenty days on the road from Vera Crux to the city of Mexico, snd on the way, they were subjected lo Ihe most extravagant exactions for the means, of nonveynnce and for the necessaries of li'e. Among other regulations travellers are not allowed to proceed in parties exceeding ten persons, and tho road is traversed chiefly on mules. To compensate, however, for these delays and exenses, the weather was fine, and the health of the party exceedingly good. .Mirny Journal, An F.xTr.MMvi Tmiai.. Geo Washington was en trial yesterday before Judge Hill, nn a charge of assault and battery, with an attempt to kill William Henrv Harrison. It is almost unnecessary to say that lliey were both ,( colored gentlemen. "Hujfalo turn. Ohio Poi.tTirs The legislature of this State (a nHy which bids fair to bo as memorable as ihe Rump Parliament) atljuurned on the $lh. The session lasted I 111 pay days, and was the longest under the tilate Constitution With little to do at tho start, more time has been consumed, and more money .pent, than ever before. The Locofocoa have exerted themselves lo Ihe utmost to fasten radical mean ores upon the Slate, and the Whigs hare worked a. hard to roll back tho lido uf innovation. It is in Ohio, aa it ought to bo everywhere lor Ohio ts a Slate in which New York and other Stales have a direct pecuniary interest a subject of congratulation that such a body has been dispersed with so littla damage to the credit and fair those who have figured there this winter, will ever ap pear in Columbus again as ihe Represeiitativeaol any (tort ion of the people uf this titate. Justice may be slow, but it is sure." Wo have, from lime to time, seen, and have given to our readers the evidence of ait existing schism in the Loeoloco party of the Slate, having its origin in the selfishness of ils organ here, and of the clique with which it is con ur cud. Strenuous as are the exertions made to suppress every public evidence uf its existence, and vigorous as are Ihe elforts to create new issues which shall unite the masse, ol the party, and render tls members oblivious of their ancient wrongs, .till the rottenness which is sealed at the very heart of its organisation has created a loathing against the disease and ils authors, which is deslii;ed to rankle in Ihe bosom uf the party until it produces dissolu. lion, or until the infected members ate sloughed oft' to perish by that rapid decay which nature provides, aa wll to r.d itself of the unsightly and unwind, ss for the bem-ht of those as yet untouched by disease Mr. a i . . ... ' . ...... lu,.r Mammon naa tiecome a permanent resident at Washington, and haa taken a bouse on ouo is in her m year, his seen every 1 resident inaugurated, and Man,, t Tiv.d remc.n branr u Ihe p,a, .,( l,.y inlmX , 1k, ral and political questions of tho day. In a Dad State. The Major General of the Statesman is, just at this time, in great trouble because he i. unable to convince himself that the Whigs of the State are serious in their advocacy of a convention to amend the constitution of the Stato. Being an individual of so great sincerity himself, he i. pained, no doubt, to observe any symptoms of a want of it in others, and so he sounds the. alarm; and as we are also io a little trouble about hypocrite, and aristocrats, we will do our be 1 1 to help him on. He says . "Look out Demochats! Monr. Dkokptiob at- TEMPTXD BV THK KxilEHAL PARTY ! ' To which we suggest the addition : Strike a light ! Them a is Niaqr.R lit a fit ! "The Whig press, in various parts of tho State, ahk hypocritically pretending to be friendly to a convention to amend the constitution." (So they am ) "This is a mere trick "(Hor.ui pacut) " and originates in a desire to obtain a majority of Whigs in the convention" (Good Lord!)" for the purpose of defeating any amendment giving power to the people" (Where of course his excellency is very anxious to havo it placed ) "They are aristocrat and mimarchtMts." You should have said " Federalist" and the vocabulary would have been exhausted, and you could have begun again at the beginning. Now, alt the humbug of the Statesman is tho baldest kind of stale trickery, played oft" again and again, until tho merest novice can sue through it, from beginning to end. The editor and the clique with which he works, cate no more about constitution nor amendment than they do about tho laws of the Hottentots. Among themselves, they do not even make the pretence. The past winter was spent in plotting to discover some species of new issue, which could be made before the people at tho next election. First, Home slend Exemption'' was tried, under the management of tho astute Senator Dimmnck ; but it waa no go. There was no party against it no chance for a fight over the question ; and having discovered that such was the case, even the love of its parent declined towards it, and it was suffered tn die for the want of proper nursing. There was love of the poorpeoplt for you ! lavESTioATioit into v fraud of the previous session was next aroused ; but soon ils authors found that they were likely to get more lhan they bargained for, and to use the expressive phrase applied by Se-1 nalor Whitman to the Locoftco doings of the session a "gtorinu fizzle " was the result- O ! the pious haters of fraud ! Now, there is nothing left but the constitution movement; wliicL tin y care just as much about aa any other. To ibis too, there is no opposing party. Everybody ii willing to submit the question to everybody in all coolness and quietude. Rut this will not answer tho Statesman's purpose. The editor must get up a fight with somebody, or his hopes of the State printing lor the next year are cold pour persecuted patriot! And he talks about aristocrats and monarchists! The man who has ridden the Slate, as witches are aid to jride unlucky steeds who has ridden his party until it has sacrificed honor, caste, principle,self-respect, collective supremacy and individual prospects at whose nod all Locofocodom bus bowed, and before whoso car and ell'igy it has fallen this man, the only specimen our Stato lias produced of a monarch and nn autocrat, talks about tho Whiga of the State as monarchists and aristocrats- Franklin County liinlo Society. The anniversary of this society was held laat night in tho First Presbyterian Church of this city. In the absence of the President, the Rev. Dr. Hoge was called to the chair. From tho reports of the officers it appears that during the past year, the systematic supply of Franklin county with the Uihle has been nearly completed. About 1400 hundred copies of the Holy Scriptures in different languages, were circulated. Wo were surprised to learn than the contributions by churches and individuals in thi. county during the year, do not exceed $'i00. Tho name of the society waa changed to the Columbus and Franklin County Bible Society." After the transaction of the usual business, the Rev. W. P. Strickland, Agent of the American Bible Society, detailed tho operations of that society, and of the friend, of the Biblu throughout the world, at some length, he wa. followed by tho Rev. Mr. Tyng of this city, in an exceedingly interesting and eloquent address, on the peculiarly protectant character of the Bible cause. It is to be regretted that the threatening aspect of the weather prevented a more numerousattendance. LTMrs. Funny Kemblu Rutler has concluded her aeries of Shukspeariaii readings ut New York. Quite a sensation was produced by her reading the play, Measure for Measure. As Mrs. Butler read it, of course some passages were ommitted, but the ladies and gentlemen present had their Shakspeares with them for the purpose of comparison. The aucienccs have been of the most refined and intelligentdescription. 03 The U. S. ship Pkkhi.e is not expected to leave tho coast of China before tho 10th of April. She is detained for the protection of American residents; danger being apprehended from a difficulty between the British and the Chinese. The I' re bio in the mean time will visit Shanghai, Amoy, Nmgpo and other ports, returning to the U.S. by Ihe Cape of Good Hope. The Preble was at Hong Kong on the 7th of January. NkwYohk CiiAiiTKit Elkction The Whigs have nominated Caleb S. Wood hull for Mayor, and the Barnburners Mynhert Van Schairk. The Hunkers were to make their nomination on Monday night. Qj A Puseyilo r. urate in England, insists on having the baptismal font taken to the brook before baptism, because the water ought not to bo conveyed into the church in an unconsecrnted vessel. Qj" Commodore Charles W. Morgan takes the command of the Mediterranean Heel, rice Commodore But ton, deceased. ?w York. Mrs. Fogg premeditated evil prevented by Ihe firmness, tho uprightness, and the moral courage uf the conservative members of the Legislature. We regret to say that, excepting the Dorr Revolution in Rhode Island, the country hits witnessed nothing so disgraceful aa Ihe deliberate attempt made in uiuo io irampie me uauui box, the lawa and the constitution, under fool. Wo have that respect tor the good sense and good judgment of the people of tin. Htale, which induces us to lielieve mat lliey will pill tne mars 01 coiiuein-nation upon the men who have fitfiirrd in this warfare upon public order. To believe otherwise, would he lo believe that the people uf one of I ho most intelligent Stnte.of the Union were indifferent to their own happiness and security. Vr York t'.tpress. Alt F.VTRAnRPINAHV HaLLOON AcMnN ASH H- rcuMioK, A Frenchman named Vrnlalle, ascended from New Orleans on the llttt instant, in a balloon, with his head downwards, and slier going through numerous " slack rope" evolutions, be rose about a mile, when the balloon exploded, and precipitated turn to the earth from a distance of 7IHHI feet t tho lletj says, other papers say several hundred, and what is more astonishing, he was not tho least injured. Ho owed his miraculous escape from death to a rose bush in Ihe garden wheie lie landed. The wind being very strong, the balloon was in a tnrnaiire kept up in such a manner as to break (he fall. Mr V. w aa very emu posed, and I'lclanut-d, on rising Irom ihe rose bush, and picking up a rose that ho knocked olf iu the 1'jII, " Vi er, this is a very sweet spot." Littu From California. The New Orleans Picayune haa papers from ('ali form a to the &lh January. The accounts from the mines represent that although the winter has been severe, the miners havo not su tiered. The digging has been much interrupted by floods. Tho Sacramento had risen fifteen feet in three days. Snow lo the depth of from six lo twelve inches covered the ground-Communication between Fort Sacramento and the mining district was entirely cut off at the latest date. Co. Benton s famous teller to the people of Cali fornia, was published on the lllli of January. The following week tho editors ol the "Alia California" remarked upon it aa follows : Cot- 1 1 kk tom's LtTTr.ft. In tho main, tho letter of Col. Benton, which we published lust week, is a well meaning document, but be lias evidently mistaken the calibre ot the community tie was addressing. It certainly must Ite esteemed aa a most particular ta-vor by the citizens of California that he has extended to them his patronage ; and the paternal solicitude for our welfare that he exhibits does credit lo his intelli gence and humanity. His personal attacks upon tin gnu lied army oiii- cers are in bad taste, and by many will be considered unjust. His recommendations to the people of this country. although partaking strongly of tho tone which a ped agogue may lie supposed to assume lowaru a pupil, are substantially whit the citilen. are now acting on; and with tho .auction of his great name it i. to be hojied that tin cam of Provisional Government will not bo allowed to retrograde." The convention to form a Provisional government i. to assemble on the 1st of May, the ongiiul tune fixed (the 5th of March) having been changed, in or der that parts of the territory might be lairly represented, and to wait to see tho action uf Congress on the subject. The now. of the election of Gen. Taylor reached San Francisco on tho tiTith uf January. Gen. Lane had arrived on his way to Oregon. He took the southern route, from Santa F to Los Angu- los. Very little is said in the papers on tho subject of gold. The perpetrators of the barbarous murders at San Miguel bad been arrested and executed. XT The Statesman of Tuesday calls us to order for having admitted into our columns an article from the Lancaster E press which speaks of Senator Whit m am as sn "ass, and cites, to repel the imputation oi asi nine qualities in that gentleman, the fact that ho waa appointed by the General Assembly, ono of a com mittee to revise the school laws of the State. Now the epithet may have been improper and uncalled for, and the copying of it on our part ill considered ; but of all the ridiculous things connected with the affair, the defence or avoidance of the Statesman strikes us as the most sublimely (excuse us) dimktyiih. How would it read in a colloquy? Iancittr Krprtst, (rampa a.) Senator Whitman is an ass. Ohio Statesman, (arrumtntativt.) Nay, hut he 1 made a committee to revise the school laws of the Stato. How then can he be an as.? Stati Journal, (dogmatical.) Gentlenion, there is a want of prouf on both sides. I he cause is continued. The Statesman is recommended to examine the chapter on nun styuiturs, in Prof Chop's Logic, Vol. 17, p VXMi, Uerinuflly, however, in reply to the Statesman, we never intended to give publicity to any article by which the public should be so far misled as lo suppose that Mr. Whitman was descended from ancestors who were imported from Spain or Malta, or that he himself is gifted with actual ears ol extraordinary longitude, or ornamented with a dark stripe down his shoulders. Ws neither arguo with the Guernsey JefTersonian that he is a ton that is to say, a n-al, frona fide roaring lion, nor wilh our friend of Lancaster, (if he is desirous lo bo understood in that manner,) that he is an actual, long tailed, lough hided, crooked-legged, hammer headed Jack ass. If we have done or said anything lo inculcate upon the public a belief so monstrous, wo regret it. We thank the Statesman for calling our at tention to it. And in order that tho reparation may be as public as the offence, and the proof of the incor rectness of the imputation most complete, we hereby make the Statesman the oiler of a very accurate wood cut portrait uf that gentleman, with full liberty lo pub' hah the same. Mr. Whitman an ass! Bless us: he is no more an ais than the editor of the 8 tales man himself. CntSA. The net revenue of tho Chinese empire for the year 1N)7 amounted to 70 millions of dollars. Tho expenditures were about the same. The taxes are nearly all direct, and under the t.hmeao system, the expenses of collection are fully equal lo the amount paid into the Treasury. Whenever publm works are tu bu undertaken, nr any extraordinary expenditure, the government collects patrmtio contributions which sometime, amount to very large sums. The donors are frequently rewarded for their munificence by appointment to lucrative ollice. Tho minimum stun appropriated to the iersnnal use of the Emteior, is stated at twelve millions and a half of dollars. i;i. FRIDAY KVHNING, April 0, LH1U. Tho Rhode Island election took place yesterday, Mr, Clay has rt turned tu Ashlaud. (LT Mr. DempHter is in N sang here last night. (Lj Tho starving Irish of the dmccso of Meath, have looser i bed 1,000 in aid of his Holiness Pope Pius IX. Times of Iloldiitff Courts of Common Pit-as la tho He vi; ml Circuit COURTS OF COMMON PLEAS. VIRST CIIUUIT. Preble March 7, May '-!, September aC. Miami March lil, July ''", October 17. Darke April 4, August H, November 7. Montgomery April 17, August 'Jl, Nov. SO. ar c orti emeu it Morrow Feb. a7. May ail, Sept. 2Tj. Marion March G, June ft, October 2. Drlatrari March tfo, June ia, October!). Vratrford April , June lit, Oct. . Seneca April 10, June Sli, Oct. lit I ttyandott April SI, July 3, Nov. IX Til Ittll ClttCUIT. TVtimAwU-Fcb. S7, May SO, Aug. SH. Mahoning March 111, June IS, Hept. 11. I'ortngc March S7, June Sli, Sept. So. Ashtabula Am 1, July 10, Oct. 0. Summit April SI, July S4, Oct. S3. FOURTH CIRCUIT. Ptrry Jan. Hi, May 8. Hept 4. Licking Jan. HO, May l.", Oct 0. Muskingum Feb SO, June ft, Sept. 18. Cothocton March LI, May SI), Oct. at). Firm circuit. Columbiana March '., June l!), Sept. 18. Stark April "J, Aug. 7, Oct. Sa. Tustaratcas April ai, Au;. SI, Nov. 30. C'arroff May 7, Sept. a, Nov. IS. sixth cihcuit. Working March fi. June II, Sept. 17. Fairfield March IS, June H, Sept. SI. J(M-April S, July D, Oct. ITi Pickaway April SU, July ao, Nov. 5. ir.YKNTIf CIRCUIT. Jfof'tr Feb. 20, May lit, Sept. (irtrn March ia, June ft, Oct. 10. Clinton March S7, July 17, Oct. aa. rt'nrrsn April 10, Aug. SI, Nov Sti. IOIITII C1HIIIIT. Morgan Feb. SH, Juno 10, Sept. IH. Ili uhington March IS, July a, Oet. S. Mfis March S7, J uly 17, Oct. IG. Athens April S-l, Aug. 14, Nov. U- S1BTII CIRCUIT HAMILTON CUUNTV. Cirii 'firms Feb. 1, May 17, Nov I. Criminoi Term Jan. IS, March lii, July 5, Oet.4f Superior Court Jan. 4, April , July f, Oct. 4. Criminal Corrt Jan. U, April a, July a, Get. S. Commercial Court Jan. 1, April S, July Ji, Oct. 1. tktii riticiiir. Clermont March (i, July lit, Sept. IS. .VArW-March S7, July SI, Oct. 10. iit(rnApril III, Aug. 14, Oct S4. Faifttte April S4, Aug. SH, Nov. I a. WoW-May 11, Sept 4, Nov. Si I. KLV.VFNjTII llttrtllT. Holmes February IS, May 14, S. pt. 3. Wayne Feb. Sti, May SI, Sept. 17. Mtdtna .March IS, May S't, Oct. 15. AthJand March li, June 11, Oct. 1. ttichland April S, June Irt, Oct. Sit. An-Apnt Sa, July !, Nov. IS. Twklftii rinri it. Franklin March ia, June fi, Sept. ltJ. M.iiiin April 10, June Sti, Sept. 4. CmrA-Apnl 17, July a, Oet. 0. Cnimiti1'-May I.July 17, Oct. S3. hqnn May ', July 31, Nv li tmon May SO, August 14, Nov. SO. TtllltTKFNTII CIIUUIT. i Feb. 10, May SI, Oct 1. Huron March IS, Juno 4, Sept. 17. Sandusky March Sti, June It, Oct. 15. Mood-April S, October SS l.uras April (i, June S5, October Sti. Ottawa May H, September II. Foi'nTKKKTII rtHCI'IT. turaiii-Feb. 13, May SS, Sept II. Cmjahoga March 10, June 10, Get. S. Utauga Apul 3, Juno 5, Oct. 30. Lois April 17, August 7, November SO. FIFTF.F.NTII CIRCUIT. Iltlmimt March G, May SO, Sept. IH. (iMrrniry March S7, June 10, Oet. 10. jIIhnfim April 10, July 31, Oct. S I. It tt rrison Apr it SI, Aiit(ni 1 1, Not. G. Jisrwn May M, August S, Nov. SO. IITKRTlt riHCtllT. Shrlhy-May 1, July S3, Oet. 10. Alltn March Sti, August Si, Out. SO. Hancock Aonl S. AuiMlst ii. N.i. ft. Jfririlia-April 10, August I I, Nov. 1 AuittaiU April 17, July 17, Out. S3. .Wercsr April S4, July m, uci. a .KVKrtTKKNTH CIHIIMT. Pike Feb. ,June 10, Sept. II. Jurison March 13, June Sti, Sept. S." Scioto March S7, July 3, Out 0. rfiierenrn-April S4, July SI, Oet. S3. CWha-May 0, July 31, Nov. 6. rmiiTKRitrii circuit. JrjfiiHce March Sti, July 3, Sept. 17. MilfMSM Mar 7, July 10, Nov. SO. i'urnfim April 17, July 17, Nov. S7. I nn H art-April 10, Oct. S3. llmry May H, Nov. 6. Paulding April, S4, Oct. 0. urauiuR court or clrvklano. February b, May 7, August (i, November 5. Tux Wntn Platform. A Michigan correspondent of the Rochester Democrat states that in the Michigan House ot Representatives on tho fun instant, Mr. Morton, a Democralia member, moved for the reading of the Whig Plailonn. Thereupon the honorable Mr. Coe oouimeiiced reading to the House the (7owlit(im of the I Httrd State. An attempt was made to stop the reading, but "one of the Loco, got up and insisted that he should go on ; that the document sppearcd tu be interesting, and he had never before hcant it read. He bad sought for it in vain in bis town, and he wauled to know what itwoabout. tin had no doubt it would be new to moat of them." Parly discipline, howuver, choked tho reader down. Oi n Zack is roMtrtu ! Gov. Fish has received a teller from Washington, giving the ngrceahlu information that President Taylor will attend tmr next Stale Fair at Syracuse. Of course the old hero will pas. through tin. city, on the way. Wo can even at tin. distanco of time, imagine thw excite im-iil In. advent will create. .V. 1'. F.rpres: Mora about (hut Wicked and Alulluious Falsehood. Tho Nlutehmrm still continuing to pettifog Tor its friend Or. Olds We charged Dr. Olds with having altered, erased and added to his testimony given before the committee of Investigation of the Senate. The Statesman replied that tho editor of that paper had seen the manuscript testimony, and that no such changes had been made. We rejoined that we had the original manuscript in our possession, with tho marks uf the alterations which had been made now upon it, which we offered to exhibit. Upon this the Statesman suddenly goes offupon another tack. It admits the alterations winch it is pleased to term corrections, and then makes a grave pettifoggery upon the circumstances under which this correction took place. It waa not made in the night. Oh, no; that would be wrong ; hut early in the morning. Wo stand corrected ; excuse u. ! The room wa. not broken into, a. the Journal has wilfully, falsely, mnlicioualy, criminally, federally, monarchically, aristocratically, ond with malice prepense declared. It was entered by the assistance of the Locofocochair-man of the committee The testimony was not changed nor altered it was corrected : 'lis strange there should such difference be 'Twist twaedlc-dutn and tweedle-dee ! Surely, if the straining at a gnat is to bo looked upon as alogical preliminary to the swallowing of acatii-e, the stomach of the ediior of the Statesman may bo set down as the most likely placo to find the humpbacked animal, that exists this side the deserts uf A-rabia.Now all this dust is kicked up to hide the real state of Ihe case a tiling which the Statesman cannot and will not try to meet. It is rnsy to equivocate it is easy to charge us with falsehood; it is easy, alas ! for the Statesman to tell a jib; but the dillicullies of the casf are not got over by any such means. We char-1 god Or. Olds with having altered his testimony in ma terial points, in such a manner as not merely to change its effect, but to give to that effect a totally difli-rcnt 1 and opposite character; and wo charged that this was done in tho absence of that member of tho committee, who of all others, ought to have been present. This charge was made upon the authority of Mr-Denver, a member of tho committee, and was accompanied with the evidence of the original papers them-selves, with a written memorandum by Mr. Reaver, exhibiting the effect which the alteration would havo upon the testimony. The leading interrogatory of the examination put by Mr. Heaver to Mr. Olds was direct, and based upon an assumed state of facts. The answer waa equally direct, and in conformity with the statement upon which tho question was based. The subsequent examination adopted this answer as its foundation. The change made by Dr. Olds consisted, first in such an alteration uf this answer as to moke it conform to a state of facts not contemplated in the interrogatory ; and second in tillering tli'j whole uf his subsequent testimony, to make it conform to the new standard. Of all this we have the evidence. The testimony of Dr. Olds as sworn to w as one thing, thst which appears in the report as corrected is another, and a very dtir.-rent thing. The first was consistent with itself, wilh truth and wilh reason ; tho other will bu found to be inconsistent on its face, and false in its statements. Editorial ChnnKOi Our neighbor, tho Rev. D. A. Randall, Editor of (ho Western Christian Journal, in his paper of this morning announces bis withdrawal from the editorial charge of that paper, which he has conducted with signal success for the three and an half years last past. The paper will henceforth be conducted by the Rev. J. L. Hatciirliikr, who has lor some time past been associated with Mr. Randall in that duty. Tho Western Christian Journal i. the organ of communication to the iJ tptist denomination of Christian, in thi. and the adjoining Slates. It has been conducted with candor and ability, and we have no doubt will contin ue, under the direction of Mr. Batchclder, t-t merit the confidence and support of that branch of tho Christen church. We trust it will bo well and liberally sustained. Ohio Camal. The canal i. open between Cleveland and Massillon. The first boat of the season arrived at Cleveland from Akron on Monday last. Com Mr tier of tiik Lakes. The vessels sailing on the lokes, under the American flag, number 1)14, of the value of $7,808,(100. There are 05 steamers, 45 propellers, 5 barks, J3 hrics, 048 schooners, and 1S3 sloops and scows. Tunci Davi fiiom New York to Milwaukik. Tho Central Railroad across tho Peninsula of Michigan is now completed from Detroit lo New Buffalo, on hike Wisconsin. JJy this routo and fast steamer, on the Hudson river and the Lakes, and the line of railway from Albany to Buffalo, a person may reach Milwaukie or Chicago in 7S hours from the city of Now York. ED Friend HuHPiiur.r is the Whig candidate for Mayor of Albany, N. Y. IT Rev. Dr. Brook a has resumed tho rectorship of Christ church, Cincinnati. Tho New Constitution. Tho constitution of Ohio provides for its own amend ment in the following way : 1st. Whenever '.wn-uurris of the ueneral Assem bly shall think it neeessary tn amend or change the constitution, they shall recommend to tlm electors, at the next State election, to volo for or against a con vention, Sd. The people are accordingly to vote at the next election. !! - If a mnioritv shnll vote for a convention, ttie next Assembly shall rail a convention, to consist of aa many members as there be in thu General Assent. toy, to be chosen in the same manner, place, and by tho same electors that choose the General Assembly. 4lh. The members so elected shall meet within three months after their election, for the purpose of revising, amending or changing the constitution. Io phtce is mentioned for the meeting ol the con vention, nor is it required that the constitution, as amended, &c, shall be submitted for the approval of the people. Our last Legislature, which, thank heaven, did ad journ at last, took the first step in passing the required ' recommendation," It now remains for (lie people to vole, at the next election, for or against a convention. Does our present constitution need amendment ? Thai s the ques tion how to be decided. Is it detective and insufficient tn answer the manifold interests and demands of our present condition as a State and a people i Aie its delects so radical and extensive that the true interest of the State requires their amendment? These are tho lueslious which it appears to us, are properly the sub jects of discussion. We are first to determine why ami whether we will leardown the old building. Wo shall have lime enough, after that, to detenu 1 00 how we shall build the new. ,ewark liazttte. Still Lntor From the Gold Region. The New York Herald of Monday, contains advi ces from San Francisco, California, to the 7th of Feb ruary. They were brought by Edward A. Suwer krop, Esq , who left San Bias on the Ut of March, and has made a very quick trip across Mexico. He met in Mexico about 1 000 Americans, Englishmen, itc , on their way to the Pacific coast, hound for Cali fornia. The Mexican banditti levied black mail nn all but armed parties of Americans. Tho latter had shown them tho elephant." The mail steamship California passed Mr. 8. about two hours sail from Maxatlan,on the night of the 15th of February. Sho waa bound to San Francisco. There were no coals at that port for her, and as she had only coal enough to take her up, it is a matter of uncertainty as tu her arrival at Panama on the 15tlt of Marcti, as waa expected. The vessel that carried Ihe coal for her lo Mazallan reached that port about twelve hour, after the California had left. She proceeded to San Bins to discharge. line weather had set in, and many diggers in con sequence were re-ooinmencing operations. 1 rade had begun to improve. Tho whole of Lower California was deserted by the mate inhabitant, who had gone north to the mine.. Largo quantities of goods were exacted daily from China, New South Wales, Tahiti and Valparaiso. The British ship of war Calypso was at Matxatlan, to leave soon for England. She would tako away over fcS.OOO.OOO in specie. Of this there were over ,(100 ounces of California gold, and of this 1 ,000 ounce, belonged to Mr. Suwerkrop. rimro were parties of gold seekers at Mazallan, wailinjr, a passage to San Francisco, but could not get any. Those that had gone up, paid $S00 in tho cabin and $-40 in the steerage distance about 1,500 miles The price of provisions had become mors moderate. On the 30th uf January, flour in parcels was selling al $10 per barrel; by the single barrel at flu'. Pork was dull at $30 per barrel. Salt beef could scarcely be sold. No one would give $14 per barrel fur it. The number of persons at the mines is variously stated at from seven to lifWn thousand. It was expected that tho spring freshets would wash out the gold in large quantities. A letter from Captain Folsnm in the National Intelligencer of the 3rd, dated January S3, contains some interesting fuels. It represents outrages as very numerous. The only tribunals are those of Judge Lynch, under Ihe authority of which several executions for murder havo taken place. Housebreaking, thefts, and robberies, are of almost bouily occurrence. Tho public aaluuiHliment ha. scarcely subsided after one murder has transpired, before another ia committed mors horrible than the first, ('apt. Folsoin dHs not anticipate any relief until Cnngies. acts. He recommends emigrants (rout the Eastern and Middle Stales to tako tho Panama route ; thoie witli families logo rm Cape Horn. Danger is apprehenned to the over-Innd emigrants from the wsut of supplies on the way, as the number taking that rule will be immense. The receipts at the custom house for tho month of January are stated at (lit),000, ami the revenue fur the current year ia estimated at $1,000,000. Between 3 or 4 millions in all had been obtained from the mine.. Late from Mkxico. From the City of Mexico new. to March II th has been received at New Orleans. Gen. Gariy had been arrested on charge of conspiracy. Gen. Sun ih's orders, prohibiting foreigners from working in the gold mines, created some excitement at Maxattan. A Peruvian bark, with 150 paasengers, was to sail nevertheless. Nothing important had occurred in any part of Mexico. Wst Point Acaov.mt Tkstiio.i ai, of Rr.srf.eT. --A meeting of tho First Class Corps of Cadets wss held at the Academy on tho SOth ull , for the purpose of expressing their feeliittfs m reference to the dealh of their classmate, D. Ciiari ks Hollrs, of Athens, Ohio, who died at his home on the 17th March. William Silvey, Jr., of Chillicothe, Ohio, was called In the chair, and J. G. Parke appointed Secretary. Resolutions of sympathy were adopted, expressing also the high esteem m which the deceased was held by Ins associates. It was resolved tu plans a monument over bis remains at Athens. Mr. Holies was a young man of high promise, and From (be (Jsliimore American. Horn hits tea and hi. Hoots There i. trouble brewing in South Carolina. Tho rest of ihe Union does not eeiu to be aware of tt but there is no doubt of the fact. The genial warmth of the Spring, instead of animating her mure kindly sympathies, seems only to ferment tho sap of her aa petity. Her patriotism and her palmettoea become i;reen together. The temperature of her heroic ardor rises with Ihe mercurv, and by tho time of the dog days she will bo equally ready for Ihe hydrophobia or a Ii lit 'Mm newspapers of South C arolina are talking of Committee, of Safely and Correspondence,non-intercourse, cotiliticalion, and such revolutionary things. All this is very alsriiuuir ; vet such is l ho apathy or the public mind that we observe no sirns of a wholesome terror anywhere, The liltlo Statu t. quite in aruest ; yet the public will not believe it and if they did believe it, so much is heroism al a discount that wo seriously fear no body would earn about it. Uut, lor our own part, such i. tho admiration we cherish for chivalry that it is always sure of our applause even though it appears mounted only on the slump, or figures nowhere but upon paper. It may be a perversity of taste, but we must confess that our idea of a hero is the greater in proportion as his stature is less;' we prefer Uen. thumb to the lle'gian giant; and cannot imagine a perfect champion except in h"gh-herled boots, and of .uch altitude only that he would have to aland on tip-toe to pull an adversary', nose. South Carolina is remarkable for perseverance in wrath. She varies only in the aspect, of it. Sho will not bo in a good humor on any terms. Her nose, like her musket, i. always cocked. She would considrr it an abandonment of dignity to put on an a liable look, and Slate rights would be in danger if she should once relax into a smile. The price of liberty ia eternal vigilance and she watches hers sn closely that she has no liberty to do anything else. The latest pronunciamento from the land of lofty doings is to be found in the Houth Carolinian of the Hitb iust. It is to the following effect : 11 The people of tins Slate may, after due deliberation and reflection, adopt a strict non-intercourse in trade and commerce, a regards the Northern States. Tins, if adopted, would doubtless have the same effect, but lo make it thoroughly etfertive it must receive the full consent of Ihe mass of the people. It must be adopted only alter mature and calm delibera tion Wo want to see no storm raised within our own confines; we would deprecate any measure that would array one portion of the people of this State against tho oilier, either in sentiment or action. Whatever course is deemed desirable, to be of any avail, it must be adopted with the greatest unanimity. When 'agnation' was necessary to amuse the people, it wea our duty to be diligent in the mailer. Now that the people have taken the imtiativo in their district meetings, our duty, and the duty of tho press throughout the State, wc believe to he the securing of perfect harmony and unanimity of opinion in their further acts and deliberations. To this task Ihe South Carolinian will apply itself, and will endeavor to avoid the agitation of any scheme which might carry within itself the elements of its own destruction, and consequently defeat our purposes. Confiscation ' of tha property of the people of the North has been hinted at and suggested. We believe such a proposition wholly indefensible at this lime. It is an extreme measure. and should only be adopted at the last extremity. And ia there any man of common sense ho does not know that such a procedure would at once involve us in civil war? Better, lar better, would it be for the whole South calmly to avow their determination to withdraw from the coiitederacy and define the limits of a new Republic. The course to bo pursued the mode nf action lo be adopted is now, we consider, entirely in the hands of the committees of Safety and Corresxndence. They must get to work. Tho people did not appoint tin-in under any other expectation hut that they would trork. We leel comment lliey will not abuse the solemn trust committed to their charge, and that we will hear from them al an early day. Our tune or limits will not permit us to consider the non intercourse proposition to-diy ; we Will do so probably hcrcalW. We believe tho suggustion la be a good one; and that no better means could be used to bring Ihe people of tho North tu their senses. But it must lw the voluntary sacrifice of the whole people, and must be the policy uf two or more State, to render it successful to any great extent." It ia lamentable that with a heart so set upon tr a- son tins utilorlunnle commonwealth should never tind her way to i. Tho Tantalus of Slates, she pines within siiiht of what she loiiirs for. vol cannot reach. She is always bailUd when sim nlwts rebellion, and cannot by any accident stumble upon it. The disclosure is given forth, however, thai it " most be the pal-ie.y of two or mure Stales lo render it successful to any great extent." llieru is the drawback. Site would wit1inL'lv break into Ihe citadel of the Union and despoil u of lis treasures, but she cannot venture without an accomplice ; iiu must nave "a centre bit ant a boy. ilul thus far she sits alone in the realms ol iion-conb nt. The Augusta (Ga ) Chronicle, one of the best papers of the South, gives some wholesome advice to the little teriiiagent Slate, which the latter, of course, will not follow. The Chronicle intimates that the best wsy to establish a proper degree of lion intercourse with the North is for the people of South Carolina to man. uiacture lor tliemsi-lvra every article now maile Tor them in New England ; that anti-abolition resolution, will not prevent llin Stale from losing a representative undur the ratio of the mat census; and it hn. the temerity tu aild that a carl load of good man ore ia worth inoro to the common wraith than a thousand suert resolution.. Tho idea! Statu rights and giuim, liberty and lime that tt should come to tins ! Dudsin-ful chivalry expands his oil. mled nostrils But it is further added that "the trade and commerce of a siiisll aggregate of deserted, deaolited cotton plantations" meaning thereby the nisctisntumus Stale nf South CsTi'lnm ' will be of liltlo roiue. quetice to the rest of the Union ; " and that msti ud of eiporling ao many emigrants and their pr p rty, for which no return whatever is let) liehitid, Smlh Carolina should tako measures to invite iininmunu with their capital, their industry and their enterprise, tn co mo and settle permanently within her limits. But, as wo have said, tins advice will not l fi.ll.wed at least not yet. South Carolina will sin k to her two tuples, polities and cotton ; and as the latter tails off she will cultivate the other more largely. Site mil manufacture nothing but resolutions. In proportion as sho lose, her represcntatiTca in Contfiess, lhee that remain, like the Sybilhuu books, will iiiercatf ut importance as Ihe number grows less ; if but one should be h it, the whole Stale would scarcely be lare U' oin n to ixoti him ; H all slioulil disappear, she represented in the lower house, as she al- ItLtb'HAPHIC DESPATCHES THK omn STATE JOVRXAU Connecticut Election. .... Niw Yobk, April A. LiUlori Oho Seal, Journal ; Tlicrei. no choice for Governor by tho people. The Legnlalure i. Wli,B, which eneurei Ihe election of the Wnigcnd,dle. Three I,ocofoco..r.lld 11,.,. gre. Tho lomih remain, in hi,i St. Louis Jtlunicipnl Election. ,., ,. St. Louu, April 3. tdilors Oho Stale Journal : The Locofoco iK-nerAl I. rim. .Ulj :.i. i l " .'cireu will, llllf OA- ception of Marshal. The board of Delegate, is Whig, and the Aldermen Locofoco. Tho city decided by a majority of 2,500 to loan half a million of dollars to iuu u.uo and Mississippi Kailroad company. One Day Later from Trance. Nxiv York, April 4. Editor Ohio Siatn Journal : By the arrival of a packet ship from Havre, we have Maria dates oflho Ihh ult. The news is unimportant. Tho money market was eaaiur, and a rise had taken place in tlio funds. The aspect of Italian a Ha ire caused no alarm. Rhode Islund Election. Ntff York. Anril ft. Editor of Ohio Slate Journal: Returns from I'rovidenen. Knnt and Wash inn inn counties for Governor stand, Whig 11937, Loco 27G0, free won jtw. Antiionv (Whig) i. probably chosen. In tho Eastern Cunirressional district. Kimo iWhiir is elected. Tho return, from tho Western district inairnt th success of Thurston, (Loco.) rillLAUKLPHIA. Anril fi Editor Ohio State Journal : The election in Connecticut has resulted in the loction of three Locofocoa to Cumrcss. and one Whir The Legislature is doubtful, but more favorable to the v nigs than former reports. Cul. Fremont nnd bis Pnrtjr. Tho disastrous accounts from Col. Fremont, which have so painfully excited the public mind lor some duys past, have induced us to imjuire at the source most probable to have the best inlonnationtor the beat opinions in relation to bis position. The result of this inquiry authorixea the belief that some of the most paint ill of these reports must be unfounded. All that relate, to ihe perishing of tho party by hunger and starvation are certainly so. Cot. Fremont wrote from the 1'ueblos, near the head of tho Arkansas, when about to cross the first range of mountains, the laat of November, that Ins supplies were ample to carry him Ihruugh that he had more flour than he wanted, and left some behind plenty of meat, and a reserve ol sugar and cotfue, and mac carom for hard limes, and for Ihe sick or disabled. Thus he had abundant provisions, beaijes the resource of above one hundred iiorses and mules, which dead or alive would be a long support to thirty-five men. If froxen to death, these annuals would remain in that state until spring, and continue, sound ; an that there wa. no danger of death uy atarvaiion i nat lliey penciled by cold, is another of the painful rumor.. Tina is improbable, though the cold must have been dreadful, and the snows fear- lully deep. All accounts, as he approached tho inoun. lams, from the Indians and traders, represented the winter as premature, and unusually severe. So much snow, so early in the season, all agreed had never ueen seen. II was in tlio last duys ut November that ho began tn climb the mountain range (above the Spanish Teaks) which divides the valley of the Upper Arkansas from Ihe head uf the Rio del Norte, latitude IWi-i, longitude about U6. The snow waa about breast deep to the horses when tlio party was last seen, about tivo in.les from the summit. Up to thi. point tho accounts are authentic, two men from the I'ueblos having followed to join Col. Fremont, but whom he did not receive probably not knowing them, it beinir his rule to take none but re liable men, whom he knew in these dangerous expedition.. There i. no doubt but that Col. Fremont got over these first ranee of mountains, and thus entered the valley of the Del Norte, near the head of the riv er, and (about) three degree, north of Santa Fe. A greater obstacle wa. .lilt before him. The great cen tral chain or the llocky mountains, there called the Sierra Madre Mother Mountain, lie knew the difficulty of crossing thi. great barrier, there reaching; the region of perpetual .now, and, if unable tu do it, expectrd to winter in .ome cove or valley where there tmgnt oe loreais ot evergreens, ceuar especially, which would furnish shelter, and pmbably game, wilh some dried grass snd soft wood for the horses to live upon. The account of his coming tn Taos, which is about a degree north of St. Louis, is proof that he did not crors the Sierra Madre, and, aa became in for horses, ho had probably lost all hi. by the cold and deep snows which he encountered alter ffetttnir in the valley of the let Norte. Tojudiru of that degree of cold, and depth of .now, it i. necessary lo refer to what they wero known to bo at Santa Fe, on the IGth of December, say two weeks after Mr. Fremont bad crossed to the valley of the Del Norte. I he eanm r e republican, received up to that day. says that the thermometer (Fahrenheit)waa twenty degrees below xero (liny twudegtuslwlow the freexing point; wiai ine snow, were over ine Dacks ol the horses in the gorges of tho mountains that the detachment of troop, with four guides, which had gone out in purmit of some marauding Indians, had become involved in these snows and with dilhcully extricated themselves that all traveling wa. slopped that per. sous had froxen to death and that such prematurity; and intensity nf cold and dep'h of .now, had never been witnessed. Thi. was at Santa Fe, about north latitude X deg 40 nun , longitude (, and at an elevation of seven thousand feet above the level of the sea. Al that time .Mr. Fremont and hi. party must have been about three degrees further north, and about a half a degree wrst, and at an elevation (supposing tho valley to continue rising to near its gorge m ll:o Sierra Madrt) of near eight thousand feet. The cold therefore must have been greater and the snows deejH-r, that at Santa Fe greater and deeper than the cold and snows which killed the thirty thousand horses of the French army in Kussia, Uts probable, then, that Mr. Fremont's animals were all killed near tho Lead of the Itio (irande del Norte. But the same probability doea not hold with respect to his men. They have resources which the pur animals had not. I if sides, they knew their danger and were preparrd for it. Mr. r rem on l wrote from Bent's Fort in sight of Ihe mounutns that he had his parly in Ihe most per-lect order, and every precaution taken for their aafety. They knew what cold waa. Tart of them had climbed tb St err .We rod a with him, when half the horses perished but no men. Tart ttsd crossed tho Santa Harlmra mountains with linn, Christmas day, ItMti, when above one hundred horses (Cahfnrnian horses) perished in a day, but no men. It is probable then, thit none of his men perished in the cold, and that is the belief of the best authority on the subject. That he csme alone, as it waa said, to Taos, ia no sign that his men were dead. It was his custom, when his party were in danger and needed relief, to go himself and bring it, first nuking them as sale as possible, taking two or three men with him (of whom his faithful servant Jacob, now a messenger to the Senate was one.) That he was on foot otily proves ihe loss of the horse's that be made tbrro hundred and fifty miles, as reported, in tune days, is proof that his feet were not I'roien that he went bark with Maj. Ueale, who went out with relief, is proof that lie expected to relieve Ins men and enable them to come m. It is probable that early in February he had them re futed and re-mounted in the settlements ol New Mexico, and renewed Ins expedition, crossing the Sierr Madre lower down. This Is the probable state of the party horses lost, but no men, and the expedition balked eud delayed twn or threo months. The supposition that the party lost their way ia wholly unwarranted. Mr. Fremont marked out his whole route before he set out, ai d he sod his men knew every day and every hour, where they were. He knew how to go to Tso. though he had never been there before. ,YI. Intel. would be poMt'ssed the lovo and esteem of all who knew him. ready is in the Senate, by a gigantic shadow. oiiircAuv. )im1, on the X int., nf pulmonary consumption, at the Inmtulmn for it a eviration uf the III lad, ia Ohio, Mr. An-tiiom lin.nr.RiV,f Ai-lilaml e.oonly, a! years. Tho derf(l rntere.1 Uio InaiiUilton ss a pupil in lilll, but itinniifli anl it ml miilioua iniUua, ms.lo aaeli rapid ad vsiteea m ilio tMliwmiihrril branr ties, llisl at lh com me nee-intuit of tlis term ol' !!I7, Ui Tnmtee nf tint Institution niipniiili'd him .irit,int lesebor, wild tlie privileut uf cott tumuli! Ho tiitlx s bu ImiI pntviouslv conmieiiCfHl. Idling In prolrirtetl illness, W hirll ho I lore Willi Ihfl for tiLulti t s trm Ih lieu-r in Him who burr llin cross for all, Iia wri tn.t.l l oiliiullv atlcntlril hy hit broihrr. ho has taken Hie ti.rjue lo AahUml eiinillv, w tie re lot bvre.iveil sed mot ber au.l sister Hill seu his remains coimnud tu the grow 'I be amialde ehimrter of ibis young man has endeararf bint to n cimnrtMl with llin limlitnhon, and hiapurting Irom tlifiu al an efl sn ws, Ins rmnlit uttKHii upon tbr eir-elr bo Irll, limb trio bent sud pupils litat in bun a sincere. Ineinl.sml tlie evnople ot imiinlfv, rer hauls u( rnmluel and mtt-Liritv of eli.ir.tetrr wbi' b he mhilntrd. will lootf live in tbr oieiii'irv ol' nil, anil luitnileit On ir inline nr Upon tho routine! nf lliin boni be jrniilsil as tear her and as Iriend, ( ommumr tint, Ihnl in lt.k i-i1t on Wednesday, thu 4lh inM . at hnlf past i iiVlwk I' M , Mrs, t-it ir a in. i il M, retiet of Thomas II. Ilonhtii.ol lhrtli.nl, t oon. On Tue-.il if, March .Sib, Kil v, consort of W, V., I.aw- III. t i lotiin:iljr u t.iku eon nt j, r yi are.